Quotes About Acceptance

The list of differences was endless, but, in the end, none of them mattered. What mattered was that we completely accepted each other. That I had her back, and she had mine.

I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.'

Everyone has issues. And at the end of the day...you are who you are.

Time heals all wounds, particularly if you pack a bunch of stuff into that time.

It is not what I had planned - this day, this moment, these unlikely relationships, both old and new. Yet I feel overcome with peace and certainty that, for once, I am exactly where I should be.

He was just the wrong guy for me at the time. Nothing more, nothing less.

It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they're missed in your life. In the world.

Don't go giving this encounter any crazy meaning like you did with him the first time around. It doesn't mean a thing. Not a thing. Sometimes, in life, there is no meaning at all.

I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.

You can't go back," he says. "Just look forward. You're doing the right thing now.

Some thinks will never be okay.

The feeling of leaving, even when you don't want to. The feeling that sometimes things just can't be fixed.

Some things will never be okay.

Maybe someday I would be happy. —

In other words, rendering loss was a way of honoring life.

And although I no longer identified with the stringency or dogma of organized Christian religion, I remained drawn to the compassion and sense of community that still existed in houses of worship.

Ronan lived in the world held by people who loved him and fed him and talked with him and met him on his own terms. When he died, he will have been fully loved from his first breath to his last and then after. That full uncompromising love, powerful and sometimes painful, was perhaps the only miracle worth believing in.

The name he was called was not his own, but he did not know this, so answered to it perfectly well.

You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line And the less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine.

You have to laugh at yourself sometimes, cause you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

I'm the family oddball, you see. Not a black sheep, I haven't done anything dreadful. They just don't know what to do with me, exactly.

I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.