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Quotes About Acceptance

It's sometimes more torment for a man, Mr. Fagin said, to consider what might have been than to live with what is.
~ Alice McDermott
Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.
~ Alice Miller
The art of not experiencing feelings. A child can experience her feelings only when there is somebody there who accepts her fully, understands her, and supports her. If that person is missing, if the child must risk losing the mother's love of her substitute in order to feel, then she will repress emotions.
~ Alice Miller
Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.
~ Alice Munro
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
~ Alice Munro
The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, you're just there, going along easy in the world.
~ Alice Munro
They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.
~ Alice Munro
I didn't care much what happened to me, so chance didn't matter.
~ Alice Notley
And if you're referring to your anguish, it's just a thing. The shape of a trailor, a wheel, or a knife. Leave the details of your life and find another one.
~ Alice Notley
We hate the ones who are spontaneously different, as if what they loved accused us of unhappiness.
~ Alice Notley
Your thoughts have given up, finally.
~ Alice Notley
She starts to get used to being sacrificed
~ Alice Notley
we can laugh at it sorrowfully
~ Alice Notley
I want to know why my loves had to die.
~ Alice Notley
If I drop both swords and rip off the blindfold, I still can't leave, for I can't leave this world except internally.
~ Alice Notley
Who wants to see us anyway?
~ Alice Notley
I have no skills; I have no hope; I don't want any hope. I simply want to sit here, in this calm.
~ Alice Notley
I am someone who couldn't find her place
~ Alice Notley
Death is beautiful the way you are
~ Alice Notley
I want to say something subtle, but I can't. It's that, now that no one loves me, I don't mind.
~ Alice Notley
I say I don't know how to make them accept me.
~ Alice Notley
I don't have a casual life, but exist to be possessed by misery, grace, or laughter.
~ Alice Notley
A bruxa passa a vir à festa de aniversário junto com as fadas, e nós paramos de negar as nossas partes que, de outra maneira, nos traem continuamente. A nossa tarefa não é negá-las, mas apenas ficar de olho nelas.
~ Alice O. Howell
Autumn is the season when you know what's coming next is harder than what is now. In pale spring you look forward to bright summer; in hot summer to the cool of fall; in winter to the hope of spring. In fall, you watch what you have blow away.
~ Alice Randall