Quotes About Acceptance

There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Aren't we all monsters inside?

And it's hard to hate someone once you understand them.

the fact that we all go on pretending things are fine, hoping everything's a-okay, even though everything is nowhere near okay and we all know it, no matter how many candlelit vigils you hold

the fact that there's a lot you have to blank out if you want to get through life...

Haven't you had enough past to let the future go?

There were blows to be struck there that only she could strike. She must go to Compiègne. Jeanne was but a young girl. She could not realize that her allotted time was over. It is hard for one to accept the fact one is not needed; that everything can go on as usual without one, and Jeanne was very young.

I boiled every equation down to these simple terms: was I lovable or was I ugly?

We can develop habits that help us feel gratitude, contentment, and joy, without diminishing how desperately we miss our loved one.

GRIEF IS A BY-PRODUCT of love. Because we loved, so must we grieve when the person we love is no longer physically with us. But the fact that they've gone doesn't mean that we must stop loving them, or thinking about them. Coming to terms with this fact, understanding that your love for that person never dies, is a major advance in our understanding of grief.

Throwing yourselves into recovery doesn't mean hiding from grief, pain, misery, aching. It just means you go with the present experience—when these emotions come, you open up to them and let them in—but you choose to get up in the morning and get out in the knowledge that, if you want to win this fight for survival, you've got to step up and take control.

Everything happens for a reason. "Let me be crystal clear: If you've faced a tragedy and someone tells you in any way, shape, or form that your tragedy was meant to be, that it happened for a reason, that it will make you a better person, or that taking responsibility for it will fix it, you have every right to remove them from your life," writes blogger Tim Lawrence.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

I know what it feels like not to fit in, but trying to be like everyone around you doesn't work.

He had understood long ago that the past was no better than the present. That was as plain as day. One had to try to escape, to wrestle free from every era, so as not to be devoured by it.

There is no escaping life. It takes what is it's due.

T]o a limited being its limited understanding is not felt to be a limitation; on the contrary, it is perfectly happy and contented with this understanding[.]

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.

A free man must be able to endure it when his fellow men act and live otherwise than he considers proper. He must free himself from the habit, just as soon as something does not please him, of calling for the police.

It is common with narrow-minded people to reflect upon every respect in which other people differ from themselves. The

People are anxious to endorse the tenets they consider as fashionable lest they appear boorish and backward.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

The thing about death is that we're all terrified of it happening, and we're devastated when it does, and we go out of our way to pretend that neither of these things is true.