Quotes About Acceptance

Some people, perhaps those with more dignity and less rage gnawing at the roots of their being, are nicer as failures, For me, it was like descending a deep pit that had no bottom

Meditation is like sobriety in that it doesn't make everything perfect but helps us be okay with how everything is.

Your "family of origin" (as her online therapist called them) could be toxic and strange, but they were yours: you could not escape them, for better or worse.

It was only recently that she was beginning to admit to herself how much it hurt to have to be fine.

I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after.

Sometimes you only get one chance at something. Sometimes that's a good thing too. When that door slams shut on the thing you couldn't live without, what happens next is when the read education begins. You have to figure out how to make some peace with it all, how to have an interior life you can live with. Digging down deep is really never a bad thing in the end, but it will flat-out kick your ass while it's happening.

Damn fool," Mother whispered, and covered her face with her hands. "It's not enough that he spells out Leon on the roof every year in Christmas lights. Now this!" My father was dyslexic but would not admit it.

Being a bastard is not a bad thing; it is merely a fact. Like having red hair or blue eyes. It does not tell you the character of the person in question.

It is not good for the spirits to dwell on that which cannot be altered.

There are a lot of hard things in this world," he said. "You don't need to beat yourself up over something that's out of your control.

No easy thing, letting go. The pain I carried in my heart was constant and at times served as a comfort and a touchstone

Letting go is a very hard thing," he said. "Grief and guilt, even loneliness, can become a comfort. A touchstone. The road behind us, littered as it is with mistakes and heartache, can often be more appealing than the open road in front of us.

Let's just say, I embraced my weirdness." He smiled. "Meaning?" "I liked being different.

Life's too short to live in the past, Amelia. Let him have his ghosts." *

There was no magical key, no way to run or hide from my legacy. This was the life that had been given to me. What I made of it was up to me.

We have always believed it good to leave a place before it leaves you.

One important aspect of it was his willingness to accept that many questions may be unresolved even after our best efforts, and our answers may remain incomplete.

I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God.

Putting our minds to something has never been the problem. The problem has been: Who decides whose mind is worthy?

am in a body. It is not the one I came here with, but it is the one I'll leave here in. I will take care of it. It belongs to me now. My pain, I will take care of it. It belongs to me now.

am in a body. It is not the one I came here with, but it is the one I'll leave here in. I will take care of it. It belongs to me now. My pain, I will take care of it. It belongs to me now. My heart, I will take care of it. It belongs to me now. My story, I will take care of it. It belongs to me now.

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.