Quotes About Acceptance

Chasing your past is a lousy, rotten game, isn't it?

Listen, I wanted to say, when you fell in love with me you must also have been in love with my wings. Love them now. Love me. Love me, and let me go.

And after a time, I stopped struggling even internally against the prescribed quietness.

reached behind me to adjust the stockings again. "Your mother doesn't like me." "She just doesn't want to lose me. That's how mothers are.

I was thinking about forgiveness today. You know, so many people get confused about what it is, binding it up with guilt. Feeling ashamed about things they never had any control over in the first place. I don't believe forgiveness is something we have to kill ourselves trying to earn. It's already here, all around us, like rain. We just have to let it in.

as if whatever life she's had before now doesn't take up space or trouble her in the least.

Everyone deserves to belong somewhere.

How could I possibly judge you? We each have to make our choices, and then find a way to live with them. And if we can't, well, then, that's when we know something has to change.

The trick is learning to take things as they come and fully, too, with no resistance or fear, not trying to grip them too tightly or make them bend.

I've prepared for everything as well as I can, but is anyone truly ready for death? Was Maia when she saw the ground flying up to meet her?

More than anyone I'd known, Denys understood how nothing ever holds still for us, or should. The trick is learning to take things as they come and fully, too, with no resistance or fear, not trying to grip them too tightly or make them bend.

Avea o busola care nu dadea gres si un fel de a privi totul de parca stia ca nimic nu ravea sa mai fie vreodata exact la fel. Mai mult decat oricine altcineva, Denys intelegea ca nimic nu ramane in loc pentru noi, ori ca n-ar trebui sa ramana. Secretul e sa iei lucrurile asa cum vin si sa le accepti intru totul, fara sa te opui sau sa-ti fie frica, fara sa le tii prea strans sau sa le indoi.

Denys had a way of seeing everything as if he knew it would never be there exactly the same again. He understood how nothing ever holds still for us, or should. The trick is learning to take things as they come and fully, too, with no resistence or fear, not trying to grip them too tightly or make them bend.

We each have to make our choices, and then find a way to live with them. And if we can't, well, then, that's when we know something has to change.

Life is change, Anna. We don't get to keep each other.

I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.

Trust hangs somewhere between knowing what your heart longs for and trying to dictate the shape or timing or outcome of your heart's desire. It lies in the willingness to accept the particulars of how and when and where God chooses to intervene. It waits in the cool shade of surrender.

When you taste a measure of being able to love and enjoy the people in your life, without having to have any particular response from them, you are tasting bliss. You can move out into life, and you don't have to have your parking ticket stamped by human approval to do it.

Letting ourselves be loved by God is the place where we stumble upon trust.

Love Contains Both "Yes" And "No

It's not how you look, it's how you feel in the dark

Only after a person embraces her unconditional worth and value can she truly receive love from someone else.

Così la trascinarono di nuovo verso il suo destino. Verso il carro, verso il mondo necessario dell'uomo bianco che sembrava non volerla.

In her daily company he found himself also ceasing to value these things that seemed so important to the white world.