Quotes About Acceptance

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

Come, drunks and drug-takers; come perverts unnerved! Receive the laurel, given, though late, on merit; to whom and wherever deserved. Parochial punks, trimmers, nice people, joiners true-blue, Get the hell out of the way of the laurel. It is deathless And it isn't for you.

Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it, and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

He was the wolf, and she was the rational hare, forgiving and accepting him as he was.

And so I have remained... an abomination to all but those few people who have overcome their aversion to truth in order to free whatever is good in them.

A house you can rebuild; a bridge you can restring; a washed-out road you can fill in. But there is nothing you can do about a tree but mourn.

You should remind yourself that what you love is mortal, that what you love is not your own. It is granted to you the present while, and not irrevocably, nor for ever, but like a fig or a bunch of grapes in the appointed season and if you long for it in the winter, you are a fool.

Self-awareness: it is one of the chief bonuses of advancing age. It is our consolation prize.

She talks about men in the same amiable, unsurprised way that people talk about the weather - men are a kind of constant. a background note. They are useful objects for meaningless chatter when there is nothing else more important to talk about.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.

Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow.

Ole Golly: You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.

Safe Deposit I thought that I could keep it? the light on the running tide, how your eyes give you away no matter what you hide. I thought that I could hold it? the forest along the sand, your neck bones like pearls underneath my hand. But time's school has taught me how petals brown and die. There's no saving pleasure. Don't try. Don't try.

It's what we all wanted when we were children- to be loved and accepted exactly as we were then, not when we got taller or thinner or prettier...and we still want it... but we aren't going to get it from other people until we can get it from ourselves.

As I forgive myself, it becomes easier to forgive others.

If I want to be loved as I am, I have to be willing to love others as they are.

Don't insist that love come immediately. Perhaps you are not ready for it, or you are not developed enough to attract the love you want (and deserve).

Love who and what you are and what you do. Laugh at yourself and at life, and nothing can touch you. It's all temporary anyway. Next lifetime you will do it differently anyway, so why not do it differently right now?

each of us is doing the very best we can at this very moment. If we knew better, if we had more understanding and awareness, then we would do it differently.

If I want to be accepted as I am, then I need to be willing to accept others as they are.

I forgive you for not being the way I wanted you to be. I forgive you and I set you free." This affirmation sets us free.

If someone is ill, bless them and send them love and peace, don't demand that they get well.