Quotes About Acceptance

It came to me…that I didn't want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through was my being there. I was experiencing…a new self-acceptance, a sense that I had to be this mind and this body, its vices and its virtues, and that I had no other chance or choice.

No doubt our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be.

Staring out to sea, I finally forced myself to stop thinking of her as someone still somewhere, if only in memory, still obscurely alive, breathing, doing, moving, but as a shovelful of ashes already scattered; as a broken link, a biological dead end, an eternal withdrawal from reality, a once complex object that now dwindled, dwindled, left nothing behind except a l like a fallen speck of soot on a blank sheet of paper.

When you love me, it's as if God forgave me for being the mess I am.

If you are wise, you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.

Love is something that comes in different clothes, with a different way and different face, and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it, to be able to call it love.

I could offer no consolation and I do not think he wanted any. There are situations in which consolation only threatens the equilibrium that time has instituted.

We think we grow old, we grow wise and more tolerant; we just grow more lazy.

I'm Emma with her silly little clever-clever theories of love and marriage, and love is something that comes in different clothes, with a different way and different face, and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it, to be able to call it love.

You accept that you are English. You don't pretend that you'd rather be French or Italian or something else.

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

Dar dragostea vine îmbr?cat? în veÈ™minte diferite, cu alt? fa??, sub o alt? form? È™i poate c? e nevoie de timp îndelungat ca s-o accepÈ›i; s? o numeÈ™ti dragoste.

there were times i thought i would forget her. but forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. only it didn't happen to me

Accepting the sadness. Knowing that to pretend it was all gay was treachery. Treachery to everyone sad at the moment, everyone ever sad, treachery to such music, such truth.

PoÈ›i accepta f?r? s? ierÈ›i, dup? cum poÈ›i lua o hot?râre f?r? s-o pui neap?rat în aplicare.

For you I'll always be Alison who slept around. That Australian girl who had an abortion. The human boomerang. Throw her away and she'll always come back for another weekend of cheap knock.

Her ÅŸeyi olduÄŸu gibi kabullenmek gerekiyordu. Ama evrim yasalar?n?n bu kadar büyük bir duyars?zl?kla, bu kadar büyük bir sakarl???n ayn? zihinde var olmas?na izin verdiÄŸi düÅŸüncesi beni ç?lg?na çeviriyordu. Egom kapana k?st?r?lm?? bir tavÅŸan gibi c?yak c?yak ba??r?yordu.

I know what it's like when people go away. It's agony for a week, then painful for a week, then you begin to forget, and then it seems as it never happened, it happened to someone else, and you start shrugging. You say, dingo, it's life, that's the way the things are. Stupid things like that. As if you haven't really lost something for ever.

Here's a QBQ twist for all of us: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know—it's me!

God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know—it's me!

You may already be familiar with the Serenity Prayer: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." Here's a QBQ twist for all of us: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know—it's me!

when man and women are able to respect and accept there differences the love has a chance to blossom

Love is magical, and it can last, if we remember our differences.