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Quotes About Acceptance

She couldn't adapt to the present, to who they were now, warts and all, so she drove winding lanes into the past to warm herself.
~ Dennis Lehane
I love my burdens.
~ Dennis Lehane
After all this suffering, the faces seemed to ask, are we to accept that suffering is the point?
~ Dennis Lehane
Shit happens. It is what it is. Whatta ya gonna do.
~ Dennis Lehane
Why?" Rachel said (the eternal why, as she'd come to think of it). "Was he that bad?" "I never heard he was bad," Ann Marie said with a minor slur and a sad grimace. She looked out through the screen at the stone-colored mist in the gray hills and spoke with a firm finality. "Honey, I only heard that he'd moved on.
~ Dennis Lehane
Todo pasa. Tarde o temprano.
~ Dennis Lehane
Me gustaría quedarme contigo, Patrick. ¿Te parece bien? —Es la mejor oferta que he recibido este año, Ange.
~ Dennis Lehane
Change, for those who don't have a say in it, feels like a pretty word for death. Death to what you want, death to whatever plans you'd been making, death to the life you've always known.
~ Dennis Lehane
Montooth said. "What you hearing is just wind." "Wind of change maybe," Pearl Eyes said softly. "I'm old enough to know it when I feel it in my hair." Montooth smiled. "You ain't got much hair left." "That's 'cause the wind took it
~ Dennis Lehane
A man is the stories he tells about himself and most of those stories are lies. And never look too closely if you uncover his lies, it will humiliate you both. Its best to just live with the bullshit." Then her mother kissed her head, patted her cheek, told her she was safe.
~ Dennis Lehane
Pazzesco. -A cosa si riferisce? -Al luogo in cui è finita. Secondo la mia opinione. -Be', certo. Almeno questo credo che possiamo prenderlo come un dato di fatto.
~ Dennis Lehane
What matters most in doing the examen is to experience an environment of unconditional love in which you feel safe to own your experience and feel all your feelings.
~ Unknown
If you want to have everybody agreeing with you, join a club or program or church that agrees with you.
~ Dennis Prager
We cannot, Lord, Thy purpose see But all is well that's done by Thee.
~ Dennis Rainey
Do not weep, dear friend. Have I not told you that Separation is inevitable from all near and dear to us? Whatever is born, produced, conditioned, contains within itself the nature of its own Dissolution. It cannot be otherwise.
~ Unknown
The Word says God don't give us credit for lovin the folks we want to love anyway. No, He gives us credit for loving the unlovable.
~ Denver Moore
The Word says God put ever star in the heavens and even give ever one of em a name. If one of em was gon' fall out the sky, that was up to Him, too. Maybe we can't see where it's gon' wind up, but He can. That's when I knew that even though it didn't make no sense to me, God had put Miss Debbie in my life like a bright star, and God knew where she was gon' wind up. And I found out that sometimes we just have to accept the things we don't understand.
~ Denver Moore
I found out everybody's different--the same kind of different as me. We're all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us.
~ Denver Moore
Hate, hatred for yourself, for other people, will confine you, but love can set you free.
~ Denzel Washington
Similarly, forcing your beliefs onto someone else damages your relationship. The damage may not be easy to spot at first, like tiny cracks in a wooden wheel, but it's just a matter of time before the wheel splits apart.
~ Derek Lin
The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away." If we can trust God to give, then we must also trust Him when He takes away.
~ Derek Prince
The future happens, no matter how much we scream.
~ Derek Walcott
Life would be just a neutral wasteland if one always ran away from the joys of love merely because one knew that pain and grief might be involved too.
~ Dervla Murphy
Keeping one's patience is really a question of remembering one's place in the universe.
~ Dervla Murphy