Quotes About Acceptance

The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.

Playing Frisbee gave Sean permission to look at Lu, across a short distance. He didn't have to feel stupid for staring.

Buying kids booze was against the law but hell, it wasn't the worst thing he'd done. After that, it turned into a thing—they'd see him and wave, and they knew his name and let him be one of theirs, one of them. They cut a small place in the world for him to belong.

You always feel someone must be to blame when you are cold or miserable or frightened…It may not be so at all – it is just the weather of life – but even if they are to blame…does it matter?

The truth was that in the end, sad felt better than rage - a lot better. But rage came easier. Sad felt like the world was ending. (150)

That night, my heart softened around Wills's autism. Clearly, Katherine had been right. I couldn't isolate him. As painful as it was to watch him paralyzed with fright, I knew that he was happier when he tried. Not showing up was admitting defeat. Admitting that he couldn't do it. Admitting that the autism was bigger than him.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.

People don't write their own endings," he said.

Aren't personal crises, loss, sadness, and periods of emotional darkness just part of human nature? Absolutely!

Our illness is often our healing.

Everyone has flaws. It's a matter of finding the ones you can live with.

And what if Miriam and I were never to be reconciled?

She enjoys rain for its wetness, winter for its cold, summer for its heat. She loves rainbows as much for fading as for their brilliance. It is easy for her, she opens her heart and accepts everything.

If you would have peace, genuine peace, you must accept all the aspects of your personality and learn to be comfortable with them.

Labels? Okay, fine. I'm bisensual. Heteroflexible. And life-curious. That about covers it.

Each day of human life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with nature's grand design — do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things.

Do not try to guess how fast or slow a pitch will be. Just let the ball arrive at its own pace, and be there to greet it

Do not concern yourself with the right and wrong of others. Do not be calculating or act unnaturally

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer

Be grateful even for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art of Peace.

As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you

Let him do whatever he wishes, and he will be unable to grasp on to anything to control

As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you.

Accept yourself, your physical condition and your fate as they are at the present moment.