Quotes About Acceptance

Arthur thinks that, above all, aging means the abandonment of criticism and the taking on of compassionate acceptance

What's the point in loving anything when it will just change or be taken away?" I asked. And she said, "The point in loving is only that. And when you lose something, you have to remember that then there is room for the next thing. And there is always a next thing, Cece. I wish you would believe me.

love came in without knocking and stayed without your permission. And when hard times came between you and the one you loved, you didn't run away.

I'd learned enough about grieving to know that other ways of feeling would come back soon enough. But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation.

It was simply the unalterable truth: unfortunate but upon us; and so it had to be borne.

I step across any reflections that are too dark with great strides, and when I am in my right mind, I find life acceptable because it is eternal. You call that my dreaming. I call it my faith and my strength. No, nothing dies, nothing is lost, nothing ends, whatever you may say. —George Sand, in a letter to Delacroix

the truth is that all anyone can do is take each day as it comes. To see life as an imperfect offering and focus always on making the best of what we have at any given moment. And to have faith in…well, whatever we can have faith in.

You know, Arthur," his mother said, "in time, you will find that little bits of happiness will make their way inside you and stay there. One little thing, and then one thing more. And then you'll realize that you're okay. You'll be okay, son, I promise you. You'll never forget him and you'll never stop missing him. But you'll be okay. And for you to be okay doesn't take a single thing away from Frank.

You know, if I've learned anything in my life, it's this: you can push away everything but love. It will not leave. It will wait. Unto death, it will wait. You might as well accept it. You might as well give it freely, too—even more than freely. Anything else is pure exhaustion.

how accepting children can be—must be.

I push pain away all day, and the moment I put my arms down it walks into me and has a seat. I

I don't think you've even begun to realize all there is for you to love. And I know you better than anyone, and here's what I know about you: You have so much love to give! But I feel like you're all the time digging in the tomato bin, saying 'Where are the apples?

The mystical teachings do not erase sorrow. They say, here is your life. What will you do with it?

If you get a cat because you just loooove cats, you're going to have plenty of days when you hate it because it's acting like a cat.

Do not carry remorse for anything in the past; in the end, it is only prideful. Let peace dwell inside you, live your life in joy, and give thanks that God has come to you in this way.

all of our lives, we long to know what our future will be. It is a mercy we do not know.

I don't hold Travis anymore, of course- not to read to him, or for any other reason, either. I wish I'd known that the last time was going to be the last time.

Some guys actually like it when a woman's brain is as full as her bra.

Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.

No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.

People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.

you can?t always choose how you love a person. Love isn?t logical or fair. It just happens.

You're not a frog; you're a toad

Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.