Quotes About Acceptance

I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.

The secret to happiness is to embrace the humility to accept what comes and the courage to continue on your life's path with an open heart.

The secret to happiness is to embrace the humility to accept what comes and the courage to continue on your life's path with an open heart.

I can't change the past. I can't take the hurt back. But I can soften it if I can just learn how to accept it.

And quickly. If you let it, grief could swallow you whole.

She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference.

Not a word of what he said remains in my mind, but I remember going away with the impression that it was possible to live without knowing everything, after all, and that I might even try to be happy in a world full of riddles.

Knowing is not enough. You must accept My blessings in order to attain a better life. You must embrace a higher level of consciousness.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

Reject hatred without hating.

There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.

Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.

defend women's right to be wrong, at least occasionally.

Don't get your drawers in a twist,' was one of her favourite phrases, 'or you'll find yourself bum-bare in the market-place . . . .

Even though I know Christopher can be hard and even cruel, it doesn't matter. I can only remember the things that made him like that. I think I should always go on loving him whatever I found out about him. I think I shall love him even when I'm dead. Do you think that is silly?" "No. It's the only sort of love that's worth having.

Why did perfect feel broken?

Sometimes it's better not to know. Nothing can change what is or what happened and digging around in the past is only going to make you miserable.

A mother knows her children's weaknesses, even if she sometimes refuses to acknowledge them.

life's most basic needs—his sight—he struggles to accept the possibility that his blindness may be permanent. Enter psychologist Sara Hamilton,

But a mother sees her child's shortcomings, even if she doesn't admit to them very often.

They weren't giving up their life, and yet, none of them realized they'd already done just that.

They knew how to be content with the ordinary and the simple. There was something to be said for that, and if Anthony could only learn that sort of contentment, maybe he wouldn't need those deep-breathing

Life could not be lived backward. There was no undoing the regret, but she could make one last attempt to seek forgiveness.

Be happy with the life you got, not the one you didn't get.