Quotes About Acceptance

Faith is accepting what makes no sense, what we cannot prove, but know down deep in our souls is real.

Shit happens and its awful but its okay. We deal with it because we havet to.

It kind of makes me wish that the worst thing that will ever happen to me would just hurry up and happen already. That way I could live the rest of my life in bliss, if only because I know how much worse things could be.

Why do you even put up with me?' 'I'm not putting up with you,' he said, softly. 'I'm loving you.

He always loved her because of, not in sprite of, her flaws.

Oh, yeah,' she said. 'He likes your brain, J.D., but he ain't attracted to you, which is a cryin' shame, if you don't mind me sayin' so.' No. How could I mind the truth? It was a cryin' shame, and my tears almost dripped right into my stuffing.

I do believe the shotguns helped them accept this reality sooner than they might have otherwise.

You can't hide from certain death, so you shouldn't hide from uncertain life.

We were perfect in our imperfection.

We are the way we're supposed to be.

The more you can let go of the sadness, the more room there will be for light.

When I watch you on the ice...I don't think I have ever seen someone with that kind of talent you have. You can't teach that. The truth is, you're better than any of us. That feeling of proving yourself all the time? Use it. Let it drive you. Accept everything outside your control and go harder. Don't think about tomorrow, just think about right now.

Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty.

I accept that people with children are having a deeper, more complex experience of being alive than I am, and this is fine with me. Raising children is one of many life experiences I'm happy to die without having had, like giving birth, going to war, spending a night in jail, or seeing Forrest Gump. If I could get through life without experiencing death, I would gladly do that, too.

There's more than one way to be a person. Actually, there are more than two or three ways. You'd think that was obvious, but I find that often it is not. The world is essentially a collection of teams. Life is a process of deciding which ones we're going to join.

I decided to take the love I'd have for a child and give it to myself instead.

It's amazing what the living expect of the dying.

Given the correlation between aging and death, declaring that you can't stand today's music might actually mark the first stage of the dying process.

It is unbearable—and yet I bear it.

To become chronically ill is not only to have a disease that you have to manage, but to have a new story about yourself, a story that many people refuse to hear—because it is deeply unsatisfying, full of fits and starts, anger, resentment, chasms of unruly need. My own illness story has no destination.

To be chronically ill is to be in a state of ever-present "camouflaged grieving," as the historian Jennifer Stitt puts it. It was this ever-present grief I felt was being swept under the rug when my friend counseled me to see the good that had come of my illness. She wasn't wrong that something had come of it—but her quick counsel negated the complexity of the quest.

You cannot muscle your way to health when you are chronically ill. Rather, one way of coming to terms with an amorphous systemic disease is recognizing that you are sick, that the illness will come and go, and that it is not the kind of illness you can conquer.

Alphonse Daudet observes in In the Land of Pain. "Everyone will get used to it except me.

Everybody took me under their wing and didn't make fun of me for not knowing anything about theater.