Quotes About Acceptance

It was, she decided, a very good time to die.

The Book of Regrets 'Every regret you have ever had, since the day you were born, is recorded in here

This was the life she had been in mourning for. This was the life she had beaten herself up for not living.

Will my life be miraculously free from pain, despair, grief, heartbreak, hardship, loneliness, depression? No. But do I want to live? Yes. *Yes.* A thousand times, yes.

That is the nature of things. History was -is- a one-way street. You have to keep walking forwards. But you don't always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.

So, you see? Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just . . . A load of bullshit.

Hope, in its simplest form, is the acceptance of possibility.

Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don't even try to change.

every day a retreat from who she'd imagined she'd be.

She had come to imagine mediocrity and disappointment were her destiny.

She remembered the anti-philosophy of Mrs Elm in the Midnight Library. 'You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it.

It was as though she had reached some state of acceptance about life – that if there was a bad experience, there wouldn't only be bad experiences.

was as though she had reached some state of acceptance about life – that if there was a bad experience, there wouldn't only be bad experiences. She realised that she hadn't tried to end her life because she was miserable, but because she had managed to convince herself that there was no way out of her misery.

But I still don't get why you let me go into that life if you knew Volts was going to be dead anyway. You could have told me. You could have just told me I wasn't a bad cat owner. Why didn't you?' 'Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live.

There is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you're in.

Una persona è come una città. Non puoi permettere che alcune zone meno belle rovinino l'armonia del tutto. Ci possono essere posti che non ami, alcune strade secondarie e sobborghi poco raccomandabili, ma le parti belle la rendono degna di essere amata.

Sometimes regrets are just....a load of bullshit

Not to be Buddhist about it—okay, to be a little Buddhist about it—life isn't about being pleased with what you are doing, but about what you are being.

who treated Nora like a mistake in need of correction.

Per goderci la vita forse dovremmo smettere di pensare a quello che non riusciremo mai a leggere, guardare, dire e fare, e iniziare a pensare a come goderci il mondo all'interno dei nostri limiti. A come vivere in una dimensione umana.

You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it.

I mean, it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can't have one without the other.

Don't worry about your abilities. You have the ability to love. That is enough.

To deny mess is to deny who we are. To see it, to allow it, to forgive it, is to reach a state of what Buddhist and psychologist Tara Brach calls 'radical acceptance', where we can appreciate our so-called flaws or imperfections as a natural part of existence. And then we can exist with openness and honesty, rather than shrink ourselves by trying to shut ourselves away like the contents of a cluttered cupboard. We can, in short, live.