Quotes About Acceptance

I remind myself that not everything is a sign, that some things simply are what they appear to be and should not be analyzed, deconstructed, or forced to bear the burden of metaphor, symbol, omen, or portent.

Searching too hard for God can get in the way of finding Him. Sometimes you just have to stop looking and let yourself be taken by surprise.

She was a woman who let life happen to her without troubling her mind about things more than was necessary.

Certainly for myself I believe I would always wish to know the truth, but then I also wish to never have to face a truth I cannot bear. Being able to look truth in the face might be brave, or it might just mean you have been lucky in the truth you were dealt.

Half a year—maybe." "Something like that." Rita did not look away. Part of her job was to help people look at what was coming. Dying could be lonely. A nurse was often an easier person to talk to than family. She held his gaze with hers.

Miss Lea, it does not do to get attached to these secondary characters It's not their story. They come, they go, and when they go they're gone for good. That's all there is to it.

The storyteller gave me a sideways look. Miss Lea, it doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their story. They come and go, and when they're gone, they're gone for good. That is all there is to it.

No, but it is necessary so we can live. It is the people who do not know this, who think every day about the bad things in their life, who turn bitter and cruel. It is like they are already dead, they are so cold and filled with hate. Like the fundamentalists. So much hate," she said, shaking her head. "Faraz and I, we do not want to become like those people. We wish to be alive.

Like I've said, prejudice means pre-judging. Making assumptions without taking the time to learn. Ignorance is the cause and ignorance can be overcome with knowledge.

God loves us as we are, but He also loves. ... God doesn't care what roads we've traveled, only that our roads turn to Him.

My husband ...has passed away. This is a euphemism, of course. I mean to say that he is dead. He is departed from this world. He is elsewhere and singing with the angels...there is another euphemism: singing with the angels. I ask you, why is it so hard to stay away from euphemisms? They creep in, always, and attempt to make the difficult things more pleasing.

The thought of [our] destruction is like a light in the middle of the night that spreads its flames on the objects it will soon consume. We must get used to contemplating this light, since it announces nothing that has not been prepared by all that comes before; and since death is as natural as life, why should be so afraid of it?

J'imagine que l'une des raisons pour lesquelles les gens s'accrochent de manière si tenace à leurs haines, c'est qu'ils sentent bien que, une fois la haine disparue, ils se retrouveront confrontés à la douleur1. »

So traumatic is the idea of jumping out of a window [of a burning building] that it is easier to pretend the fire will never reach us. It is the same with death: we know it is approaching, but we act as if it is never going to come. The vast majority of us, especially here in the west, construct our lives based on the denial of death.

But if we don't prefer things, then we increase our chances to be content.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused.…Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen." —George Saunders

If I am peaceful…is not peace,/is getting used to harm.

Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.

Your pain and anger will pass, but the guilt would remain with you for always.

It can't be immoral to love anyone -- as long as one doesn't hurt anyone by it.

I am not so sure I should like the facts of life, but I have got over the bitter disappointment I felt when I first heard about them, and one obviously has to try them sooner or later.

If you open your hand, you may receive everything.

We will become beings of light also, if we will only allow our self to reject all that is not of this light.

You need to do a few things. For one make your life about you and not him. You need to also either accept whatever excuse he gave you and move on or leave him. Don't be one of those women that's always crying about their cheating man yet and still, they are laying down to his ass every night. Take control over your relationship and your life. It's not a hard thing to do and find happiness in yourself