Quotes About Acceptance

Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine.

All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them

We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.

The solution to the feral cats that already exist is the one no one wants to hear: accepting the fact that feral cats will live among us, and taking responsibility for controlling their numbers by trapping, neutering, and returning them to their outdoor territories.

Why did Meridith have to be so stubborn? Why couldn't she just give him a chance? He knew they'd be amazing together. She'd opened her heart to the kids, admirably so. It couldn't have been easy accepting her father's other children, but she'd done it. Why couldn't she open her heart to him?

Oh, wow. Really? All that blathering made sense?" "It did to me. Thank you." "My pleasure, honey." "Now if I can just get a handle on this Jake thing." "Well, I don't how to tell you this, but sometimes the thing you're most afraid of is the thing you need most." Meridith

Don't play the what-if game, Grace. You'll lose every time.

Wade worked his rope, readying it for the next calf, telling himself he didn't care if Abigail had fallen for Dylan's charm, didn't care if they were going out tomorrow night, didn't care if they got hitched and had a passel of kids. Dylan was slipping on the gloves Maddy had fetched as he passed Wade. "Must be losing my touch," he mumbled. Wade smothered the grin that fought for release.

You can call me Seth, you know." She shrugged. "You used to." She used to do other things with him too. Like laugh and touch and make small talk. "Jack always called you Murphy. I got used to it.

Josephine wasn't much for praying . It had never done her any good.

He can handle all your emotions. Every last dark and wretched thought. He already knows about them anyway.

She did love him. Maybe it wasn't quite the same, but it was close enough. The closest he'd ever dreamed of having, and he was going to take it. He'd be a fool not to.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has," believed Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus. And as an old Buddhist proverb states: "'Enough' is a feast.

Can you endure life with two brides, bridegroom?

I thought I was growing wings— it was a cocoon. I thought, now is the time to step into the fire— it was deep water. Eschatology is a word I learned as a child: the study of Last Things; facing my mirror—no longer young, the news—always of death, the dogs—rising from sleep and clamoring and howling, howling.... ("Seeing For a Moment")

Ah, grief, I should not treat you like a homeless dog who comes in the back door for a crust, for a meatless bone. I should trust you. I should coax you into the house and give you your own corner, a worn mat to lie on, your own water dish. You think I don't know you've been living under my porch. You long for a real place to be readied before winter comes. You need the right to warn off intruders, to consider my house your own and me your person and yourself my own dog.

Step beyond right and wrong, and resist passing judgment. Who you've been and what you've experienced in the past isn't good . . . and it isn't bad. You might not know the whole story.

When you practise trust and let go of things that no longer suit you, you open a space for what is exactly right for you now.

The world is an infinitely better place when we don't criticize the actions of others, but instead imagine walking in their shoes. Native Americans say: "Walk a mile in my moccasins.

but sometimes you have to fit into life, or waste a lot of time and energy wishing it would fit in with you.

My trouble is that I think there is a track that things should stay on. I'm hooked to a belief that life should go a certain way. I develop an attachment to Plan A and set up my expectations accordingly. An important part of spiritual practice is to learn to let go, to recognize that Plan A exists only in my head.