Quotes About Acceptance

And suddenly he knew that this was not, as he had been saying to himself, simply an unlucky day. It was a day dedicated beforehand to a lost cause.

She thought: This is how all life should be accepted, in desireless wonder, reaching out for nothing and thrusting nothing away, rejoicing in the different essence of each moment as it blazes into the present from the folded future. But she was under no illusions; for a life of such moments one needed a heart without roots, a spirit free in the wind, and empty hands. Once she had had them. She would never know them again. She had committed too much to earth.

You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now.

I saw death come for you, and I had no philosophy.

He kept telling me I was queer, and I didn't like it. The word, I mean. Shutting you away, somehow; roping you off with a lot of people you don't feel much in common with, half of whom hate the other half anyway, and just keep together so that they can lean up against each other for support.

The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you.

Death. It doesn't have to be boring.

Yet she [Jane Porter] asks little enough: a quiet life, peace, and if not active happiness, that resignation which after the hot days of youth are over, passes for contentment.

Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults- yet faults tear away the perfection in you.

Giovanni was easy to love. He was not afraid to love, was fun in so many ways. He liked himself, which is the secret of much in life!

It's easy to love! Kattie once said to him. It's the courage to be loved that is so difficult.

Time is a great restorer, and changes surely the greatest sorrow into a pleasing memory.

Love your spirited child for who she is. Because she is more, she will make you more.

and feel good about it. "What can you say to your irregular

Just as one would never attempt to turn a sports car into a utility truck, it is also critical to avoid the mistake of telling a child who is temperamentally intense, energetic, and sensitive not to be any of those things.

Love your spirited child for who she is. Let her make you laugh. Let her share with you how she sees, hears, and experiences the things around her. Allow her to enrich your life. Because she is more, she will make you more.

One of the greatest tragedies in human interaction is that we believe 'will' can change everything—it can't.

Bibamus, moriendum est. -Death's unavoidable, let's have a drink!

Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.

Life does just go on, and you change, and you can't go back. You have to live it the way it comes.

O time! thou must untangle this, not I; It is too hard a knot for me to untie. —Shakespeare, Twelfth Night People require different amounts of time for grieving.

Anyway, everybody gets something, and nobody gets everything, and that's the way it is.

Peace in this life springs from acquiescence even in disagreeable things, not in an exemption from bearing them. FRANÇOIS DE LA MOTHE FÉNELON.

You had better make up your mind to accept what you cannot alter. You can live a beautiful life in the midst of your present circumstances.