Quotes About Acceptance

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?' Be yourself,' said Ipek.

...I want to know if you can live with failure yours and mine and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "Yes."...

When we surrender when we do not fight with life when it calls upon us we are lifted and the strength to do what needs to be done finds us.

The world offers itself to me in a thousand ways, and I ache with an awareness of how infrequently I am able to receive more than a small fraction of what is offered, of how often I reject what is because I feel it is not good enough.

I am not interested in a spirituality that cannot encompass my humanness.

I don't want to hear about my death.

Però il rimpianto esiste, e i legami esistono, radicati in noi come alberi che non cedono neanche all'uragano, inevitabili come la fame e la sete. Non te ne puoi mai liberare, anche se ci provi con tutta la tua volontà, la tua logica. Magari credi di averli dimenticati e un giorno riaffiorano, irrimediabilmente, spietati, per metterti la corda al collo più di qualsiasi boia. E strozzarti.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.

She alone is the happy woman who has learned to extract happiness, not from ideal conditions, but from the actual ones about her. The woman who has mastered the secret will not wait for ideal surroundings; she will not wait until next year, next decade, until she gets rich, until she can travel abroad … but she will make the most out of life today, where she is. Paradise is here or nowhere. You must take your joy with you or you will never find it.

Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

You resent death. You regret death. But as for your own life, you know perfectly well that no one can threaten it at all. Death is something that happens to someone else.

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as arent afraid of truth.

Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.

To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.

Love can't conquer anything. Love can't make a scholar into a warrior. Loving her can't make her love me.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

The only way to stay out of trouble is to grow old, so I guess I'll concentrate on that. Maybe I'll live so long that I'll forget her—maybe I'll die trying.