Quotes About Acceptance

Nothing is different here and now than it used to be: The people whom I need most are gone, and the ones who remain do nothing to help me get to where I need to go. Different names, different faces, but the end result is still the same.

regret is just misplaced nostalgia. That you can look back fondly or even wistfully on pieces of your life and hound yourself with endless what-ifs, but nothing will change. The present will still be the present. The future will still unfold as it's meant to.

Mostly, people are who they are. But if you accept this about them, you can move forward and build from there—then, they can surprise you.

The point of life wasn't to go back and litigate all those mistakes. The point, Cleo supposed, was to do better.

When you lose your parents young, there is simply a blight on your psyche that becomes part of your being. Really,

Sometimes—many times—both in life and in marriage, you hope for the sunset overlooking the ocean off a deserted beach in the Mayan Riviera, but what you get is a drive to physical therapy. That's okay. Maybe it's actually how it should be.

He envied straight couples the easy openness of their relationships. At that moment, he would've given anything to know what it was like to take his lover's hand without a second's consideration for what anyone else might think, or do.

Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.

You are back, Cam. Which means for the first time since you left, it's okay for us to be mad at you for leaving. - Macey

Hey I bruise," Hale said. "Also, you are freakishly strong.

Will you still want me if I'm poor, Kat?" "What kind of question is that?" "No. Seriously. You're the planner. Simon's the genius. The Bagshaws are the muscle. And Gabrielle is . . . Gabrielle. But what am I, Kat? I'm the guy who writes the checks." "No. You're the most naturally gifted inside man I have ever seen. And I was raised by Bobby Bishop." She made him look into her eyes. "I don't care about your money.

He's a boy, Kat. I hate to break it to you, but we are fundamentally different.

Sweetheart, when you lose someone, you lose a little bit of yourself, too. And that missing piece? Sometimes you have to lose the rest of yourself to find it.

Like Cammie is fine," Macey said, then glanced at me. "No offense." "None taken," I said. "I think.

I know not all people with scars are evil," I snap. "I'm not living in a cartoon.

But I didn't care. Let people judge you. It never changes the truth.

Not all people with scars are evil.

You know, it's okay to admit a little weakness now and then, Cammie. It won't kill you. In fact, I hear it makes you stronger.

But Logan had to laugh when he realized that he was the maiden in this scenario. And he didn't care one bit.

So I'm not gorgeous?" Macey challenged. "Of course you are." He started away, turned back at the last minute. "But I'm the guy who figured out that's not all you are.

Let people judge you. It never changes the truth.

I know there's no use in looking back. It's started now. And looking back won't do anything but make me turn to salt. I blame my new designer shoes for the fact that my footsteps are unsteady. I blame the fact that I can't breathe on the blue dress's tiny waste.

And then, more than anything, I wanted to stop hearing Macey's words, It's okay for you to like him, because sometimes not liking someone is easier.

She is sitting right here!" Kat didn't realize she was yelling until her uncle looked at her in the manner of a man who has not been yelled at in a very long time. "I'm here." Kat said in a softer voice. She didn't say, I can hear you. She didn't tell him, I came home. She didn't promise, I'm not going anywhere. There were at least a dozen things that she might have said to reclaim her place at the table, but there was only one that really mattered.