Quotes About Acceptance

It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

Sometimes it's a struggle to get over self-love first. Sometimes in this struggle for love, we give up, or lose everything, and we still don't achieve love. Some people don't even recognize real love when it comes without being called or sought.

So everybody who talks about homosexuals as a damnation better look in a mirror and try to heal their own selves. Who they call homosexuals do, at least, act out of their love. That's better than the hate a whole lot of people act out of.

Life is not perfect … for anyone. But love makes such a difference in life that sometimes it is the only thing that seems important. It makes life livable.

Chile, ain't life somethin?! Lord, oh, lord.

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

You can't possibly enjoy growing older unless you make peace with where you are right now.

Some of us need to be as sympathetic and understanding of our own failures of the past as we seek now to be understanding of others. We need to remember that we were a work in progress then—as we are still, I hope—and that we had our unique problems and shortcomings that made it difficult for us to be as fine as we wish now we had been. It isn't fair to impose a sixty-year-old's judgment on a twelve-year-old's frame. The

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

Rather than searching for ways around death and disappointment, the queer art of failure involves the acceptance of the finite, the embrace, of the absurd, the silly, and the hopelessly goofy. Rather than resisting endings and limits, let us instead revel in and cleave to all of our own inevitable fantastic failures" (The Queer Art of Failure, "Ending, Fleeing, Surviving").

Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?

And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall.

The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.

Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.

From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

Near as I can figure, living has always been the primary cause of dying, and the sooner we all accept that simple truth, the better off we'll be." Well,

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. For even love unreturned has its rainbow.