Quotes About Acceptance

When you get older you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly.

Regrets serve their purpose. You'll see.

I love myself just the way I am. I can do anything I believe i can. My positive thoughts make me feel good. Just the way know I should.

I can't ask god why until I'm willing to ask why not.

Don't judge people by their kinfolk. —Dutch Callahan

People often feel threatened by things that are different. It reflects their ignorance, not your reality.

It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all, but if one more person said that to her, Jodi swore she was going to lose it.

Hey, if you can't get what you want, maybe you could accept what you need.

It was time to let go. Some things in life were beyond fixing, and this was one of them.

Letting go of the hurt and embracing the love and the people we have in the present moment is the key to happiness. Never forget this, my loves.

Use your memories to create something that keeps you warm at night, instead of clinging to worn-out emotions that tie you to past mistakes. We are all flawed, but we are also all perfect in our humanity.

There's such a stigma attached to mental illness that people are often reluctant to talk about it, or admit that they, or someone they love, needs help.

Accept your losses and forgive your mistakes, then you can embrace a happy future.

the same and you know it." "Isn't it? So you had your heart broken. Any of us that have been around for any length of time have had our hearts broken. That's life.

none of us are getting out this world unscathed.

If he never loved her the way she loved him, it was going to be okay. It was truly better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Her heart would survive this, and would be richer for having known him.

Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.

sometimes life's like a bad waiter and serves you exactly what you don't want. You can cry and scream and order him to take it back, but in the end, you're the one who has to deal with what's finally set before you.

I used to think love could save anything, but it can't if the vessel's cracked.

What made their marriage more than a run-of-the-mill case of domestic estrangement was her refusal to accept her lot. She stayed furious all the days of her life - so sure of her ground, so successfully spoiled, that she was impervious to the social pressures and propaganda that made most women settle down to play the part of wife.

I'm not sure what the moral of the bathroom-stool story is. Perhaps this: it's a good idea to settle for a few loose ends, because even if everything in your life is connected to everything else, that way madness lies.

I'm such a mother hen. If my chicks are doing well, I cluck happily. And you can be the rooster, darling. To love a child is to let go of the child you dreamed of having and accept the one you've got, as they are, not as you want them to be.

I would rather be a cripple and have your love for all of a single moment than to live as I am without ever having it.

Oh, Papa, I've done something terribly silly. I've fallen in love with someone, and he loves another. The strange thing is, as much as it hurts, I only want him to be happy. And if she'll make him happy, I want him to have her.