Quotes About Acceptance

No, you stupid idiot, there's nothing wrong with you. You're perfect.

And then last autumn his heart had stopped working properly. The veterinarian said that they just had to care for him and love him, and Batty had loved him, and loved him, and loved him, but it hadn't been enough. No one in her family had ever said that Hound's dying was her fault, but she knew the truth. She hadn't been able to keep him with her, to stop him from leaving her behind.

Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

My sight is bad, my hearing is bad, I feel bad, but I don't suffer, I don't complain.

Some things can't be forgot. they can be put away though, thought back on a lesson, as somethin' we've overcome. That's what makes them go.

Is there anything more horrible than death?

It's good to sometimes let things go. And people, too," she added.

And I don't think anybody ever gets over loss. I think you get through it. You let it get through you.

Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

I've never worried about age.

Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.

One thing I've learned, Father--that in this life it's best to keep the then and the now and the what's-to-be as close together in your thoughts as you can. It's when you let gaps creep in, when you separate out the intervals and dwell on them, that you can't bear the sorrow.

in this life it's best to keep the then and the now and the what's-to-be as close together in your thoughts as you can. It's when you let gaps creep in, when you separate out the intervals and dwell on them, that you can't bear the sorrow.

You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.

Accept what you can't change, and change what you can. It's easier than you think.

We do not judge the people we love.

One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.

To be grounded in an attitude of compassion is to be capable of receiving and welcoming the suffering, which the other is giving us. This does not mean that we suffer for them, but that we offer them possibility of going beyond the separate self in which suffering is harbored. (59)

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)

I need neither future nor past, but to learn to take today not too fast.

Daily I learn — sometimes painfully, other times with glee — that mine is a path never meant to be paved.