Quotes About Acceptance

Though we don't do it often enough, it's easy to have a grateful heart for food and shelter, love and hope, health and peace. But what about the hard stuff, the stuff that darkens your world and wounds you to the quick? Just what is this everything business? "It's the hook. It's the key. Everything is the word on which this whole powerful command stands and has its being.

everybody is trying to swallow something that won't go down

I believe if I were charged with having a goal, it would be to live without fretting—to live more fully in the moment not always huffing about as I've done in recent years . . . to live humbly—and appreciatively—with whatever God furnishes.

Love is a constant act of forgiveness.

Don't fear whatever God lays before you today

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit," he exclaimed, his breath vaporizing on the frosty air. "The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are!

think th' whole point of life is to know God, and be able to accept the way things turn out.

George Macdonald wrote this: 'Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best. God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best and man will not take it.

Just be who you are,' said Beth, 'because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

He knew only that he must get on with his life, which lately seemed to have passed him by.

Leave it alone. Let God handle it.

But then, What is not vain, by God, in lives of men? All is in vain! We play at blind man's buff Until hard edges break into out path. Man life's is error. Where, then, is relief? In shedding tears or wrestling down my grief?

O cattiva Proserpina, come puoi tollerare che invano sian versate tante lacrime amare?...

It is our lot to take what we have, make of it what we will. We are meant to finger the leftovers, rock our old dolls, clutch wooden angels to our breasts.

When something unfortunate happens, they tend to respond with: "To me? It's happening to me?" They don't believe they are deserving of bad luck. One of the lessons they're learning is that "life" happens to everyone.

It wasn't what Connie asked for. But it was what God was pleased to give her.

Het is een mooie kringloop, je moet er alleen niet een zin in willen ontdekken. Dat is misschien de enige les die er te leren valt. Gewoon als een blad naar de aarde kunnen tuimelen zonder dat je vindt dat je moet denken dat je vleugeltjes krijgt en weer omhoogvliegt het heelal in. De perzik van onsterfelijkheid is een aardig verzinsel, maar die vrucht heeft beslist geen pit. Het is maar een ezelsbruggetje naar de dood.

Niet bang zijn voor de natuur. Dat is ook maar een natuurverschijnsel.

I don't think there's enough time to repair some things. Some things just become part of a person, like their skin color. It doesn't have to define them, but it's always with them.

I still can't believe she's gone," Maryse Robicheaux murmured as she stared down at the woman in the coffin. Of course, the pink suit was a dead giveaway—so to speak—that the wearer was no longer with them. For the miserable two years and thirty-two days she'd had to deal with her mother-in-law, Maryse had never once seen her wear a color other than black. Now she sorta resembled the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man dressed in Pepto-Bismol.

Is a couple of hairs above my lip really worthy of this much effort?" I asked. "Yes," they both replied at once.

Oh, I resented her at first. The whole 'in sickness and in health' thing, but I eventually came to realize it was for the best. If someone stays for any reason other than they want to be there, it will only lead to resentment. And then what do you have?" "Two miserable people," Ida Belle said. "Exactly," Nolan agreed.

Mildred was old-fashioned in a lot of ways, but family wasn't one of them. Blood didn't make someone love you. It didn't make someone treat you right.

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