Quotes About Acceptance

To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.

We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.

The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one.

So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender.

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.

The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.

To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either.

To accept reality is only to encourage it.

Sign over the gates of hell: "Doesn't mean you're a bad person."

Eventually you come to realize that most people aren't looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to.

Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere.

Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.

I've learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now.

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.

Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.

For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is.

It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved.

Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.

What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be — and without having to pretend.

Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently.

There's nothing like self-improvement to get your friends to like you for who you were.

The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.

A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have.

The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't.