Quotes About Acceptance

After all I've lost, what's left to lose?

Carson heard that expression more often these days—It is what it is—and it nettled him every time someone spoke it.

Life is full of mysteries, isn't it? And maybe we don't always need to know the answers to them. Each thing we don't understand is a wall, and we spend our lives throwing ourselves against those walls, with little to show for it in the end. Maybe sometimes it's just best to accept the limitations of our understanding, accept that some things will be forever beyond our

Well," he said, "you can either do the wrong thing and let a loss like that destroy you, or you can do the right thing and be properly grateful for all that came before the loss. Grief should drive you to your knees, but if you stay there forever, you're saying you know better than God how the world should work. And you don't." He

we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain, and dull. If we love and allow ourselves to be loved . . . well, a person who loves is the most precious thing in the world, worth all the fortunes that ever were.

By the time I was six, it became clear that I was not adoptable.

She is not happy, nor is she unhappy; she takes pleasure in her endurance.

May the judgment not be too heavy upon us.

Even when acceptance is achieved and a degree of happiness attained, joy often remains elusive forever, like a promise of water in a dry well once brimming but now holding only the deep, damp smell of past sustenance. Yet

that allows him to be accepted as a sort of honorary member of the gang

Embrace the weather, child, and you'll understand the balance of the world.

not one to dwell on loss, because to dwell on it was to disrespect the gift of life and risk becoming obsessed with the fact that all the losses throughout the years eventually lead to the loss of life itself.

Your faith could have no substance if you did not also accept the reality of its effects in this world.

Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness, and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we're here to learn.

You could make yourself a little crazy, even certifiable, if you insisted that life always proceed according to some this-because-that system of logic. Occasionally you had to accept the inexplicable.

live by the old saying popular with Californians—"Go with the flow"—though that's exactly what happens to a dead goldfish when you flush it down a toilet.

Life is full of mysteries, isn't it? And maybe we don't always need to know the answers to them. Each thing we don't understand is a wall, and we spend our lives throwing ourselves against those walls, with little to show for it in the end. Maybe sometimes it's just best to accept the limitations of our understanding, accept that some things will be forever beyond our knowledge." He realized that he was

We ceaselessly examine the bits of wreckage in the surf, as though we can put the past together again, but that's just torturing ourselves.

No, what I've got here is good for me.

In one of his psychology classes, he'd been taught that, as a person lay dying

The past cannot be redeemed. What has been and what might have been both bring us to what is.

stay silent, say nothing, and maybe people would like you. And if you didn't tell them what an embarrassing mess you were, maybe they wouldn't notice.

the rejection hurt.

hope knowing this doesn't diminish your love of the island.