Quotes About Acceptance

Choosing not to feel pain is choosing a sort of death, a withering away of the expansive self.

I love this idea, Bruno says. Of being broken but finding pleasure in it.

it made her angry, and since she could do nothing with her anger, it made her sad.

I didn't create this world," she said to herself. "I only have to live in it.

Tanks were normal. Bombs were normal. Why couldn't eating be normal?

Already you are walking in the heat to get somewhere, but where can you go? There is nowhere but here. This street or that street, it is all the same. One day you will know this, and you will sit down and wait.

He patted her belly lovingly—her stomach still firm and flat, belying the secret it cradled. "Anna, this little life is part of you. How can I not love it? If my dad could love me the way I know he did"—Paul meant Albert, the only father he'd ever known—"then I… I guess I can find it in myself to learn to love this child.

Temos de nos reconciliar com os obstáculos que não conseguimos derrubar. Admitir que fazem parte de algo que não foi desenhado por nós e que nem sempre podemos alterar.

I buried my grief for my son, not my memories, but my grief.

an opportunity falls into your lap, accept it with confidence and pride, knowing that you've earned it.

Start thinking of strangers as people who can bring new dimensions to your life, not as persons to be feared.

As soon as you notice your first wrinkle and your first white hair, sigh with ease. You are well on your way to becoming who you always wanted to be." VÉRONIQUE VIENNE

You have to love men a lot," she once wrote. "A lot, a lot. You have to love men a lot. Otherwise they are simply unbearable.

life is not something you can plan down to the moment. It happens. You try your best to be prepared for whatever life brings, but the one thing you can't do as long as you're breathing is stop it from happening.

that life is not something you can plan down to the moment. It happens. You try your best to be prepared for whatever life brings, but the one thing you can't do as long as you're breathing is stop it from happening.

You could have arrived atop a wildcat and no one would have said a word. They will adore you.

I give up, God. You made me. You know how I am. I cannot keep my distance. Nor can I keep those I love alive. Only you can do that. Only you are God. I give over. I fall prostrate before you. What you see fit to bless me with I will rejoice over. When you takest away, I will turn to you for solace. For you are the one and only God.

Who cared that he couldn't spell? She was a good-enough speller for both of them. With luck, their children would take after her.

When parents die, the dream dies, too—the dream that they will see you for who you really are (and, I suppose, the dream that they will ever be the parents you wish for).

Prayers are always answered. Whether we like the answers or even recognize them is altogether another matter. Sounds

Niczego równie trudno nie przebacza siÄ™ komuÅ›, co jego zalet.

If it became customary to go out into the street stark naked I should not be the first nor the last to conform.

Nada hay tan difícil de perdonar como el mérito.

The best order of things, to my way of thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not of it.