Quotes About Acceptance

No podemos cambiar quienes somos. Tarde o temprano tendremos que enfrentarnos a nosotros mismos.

One day you may feel differently," she replies. "Sometimes our forever life does not last as long as we think.

The world had become a much more interesting place, filled with fellow travelers whose joys and sorrows he no longer disdained to know and whose shortcomings he was far more inclined to overlook.

I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out.

I don't really feel like I want to chase youth. I want to get old. I want to experience all the seasons of my life.

My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement -- not to everyone else, more to myself.

Some part of him had hoped that a woman might one day see beyond his scars to the man he was inside. But Megan was doing more than just ignoring his ugliness. She was _accepting_ it with a woman's gentleness, her touch soothing memories of savage pain, grief, loneliness.

I'm marrying you, not your uterus.

She thought he was about to kiss her again. Instead, he slowly sank to his knees, grasped her waist, and pressed his lips to her belly. Her stretch marks. He was kissing her stretch marks.

I don't wax or shave like a lot of women do these days." He laughed. "Good. I don't want to feel like I'm having sex with a 10-year-old. I came of age in the seventies, when natural was sexy. I like bush.

Sometimes the only way to deal with fear and pain is to open your heart to it. Grandma Alice says there's nothing we can't overcome, as long as our hearts stay open.

The seminal journey of the forties is from "everyone hates me" to "they don't really care.

I don't want to be Jewish, I want to be British," she announces in early December.

Perfection isn't a requirement of friendship, but showing people who you are definitely is.

He reads up on the science of taste and concludes that the main problem with new foods is simply that they're new. So just having them around should chip away at the eater's innate resistance.

Look at things the way they are and not the way you wish they was and you'll get along all right.

Even now that I'd learned i wasn't human

The trouble with you is,' she said, half-smiling, 'that you're such an optimist. You really believe that if things are hopelessly bad, then they must improve. What nonsense it is! Things can be bad, and stay bad. And they can be endured... Can't you see that we've all got to make the best of things as they are?

Accepting the world's realities, even when you didn't understand them, was a basic necessity of existence in Ozark life.

The light that had flared to life in her mind, the mating light, burned brightly, filling her with an endless glow of warmth and love. She cocked her head. "They say a leopard can't change his spots." "Liv . . ." The word ached. She pressed her hand to his cheek and smiled at him with all the love in her heart. "It's a good thing you're not a leopard.

Some kids prefer to engage with characters who are dealing with, say, bullying, gender identity, and racism outside the confines of the all-too-real world readers themselves live in.

You know when you're in yoga and you're looking around, thinking, Wow, I wish I were that flexible, or How come she can hold that pose? Well, my friend has a saying: "Stay on your own mat." Not physically, but mentally. In life, we're all made differently: our families, our frames, our personalities and talents. Appreciate how you were made, and stay on your mat. That's where happiness lies.

I always say I was one woman before his death and have been another ever since. The one before thought she could fix anything if she just worked hard enough. The woman after was forced to accept that sometimes life has plans for us and our loved ones that are far, far beyond our grasp.

there is a rock bottom that you can hit, even if you are young and beautiful and smart and loved.