Quotes About Acceptance

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…

I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant…

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

Ah, well, let's not borrow trouble; the rate of interest is too high.

But maybe everything'll go all right. In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take what ever God sends.

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.

Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them , parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining more.

A woman who has a sense of humor possesses no refuge from the merciless truth about herself. She cannot think herself misunderstood. She cannot revel in self-pity. She cannot comfortably damn any one who differs from her.

What if you never meet him? Then I shall die an old maid, was the cheerful response. I daresay it isn't the hardest death by any means. Oh, I suppose the dying would be easy enough, it's the living an old maid I shouldn't like, said Diana, with no intention of being humorous.

Death grows friendlier as we grow older.

How difficult it is to realize that one we have always known can really be dead, said Anne

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

He who accepts human love must bind it to his soul with pain, and she is not lost to me. Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

Now you see why I can't be perfectly happy. No one could, who has red hair.

But we can't have things perfect in this imperfect world.

and he wasn't reconciled to dying. Dora told him he was going to a better world. Mebbe, mebbe, says poor Ben, but I'm sorter used to the imperfections of this one.

Folks say I'm good, he remarked whimsically upon one occasion, but I sometimes wish the Lord had made me only half as good and put the rest of it into looks. But there, I reckon He knew what He was about, as a good Captain should. Some of us have to be homely, or the purty ones—like Mistress Blythe here—wouldn't show up so well.

I can't help it. I want everybody to love me and it hurts so when anybody doesn't.

It was really dreadful to be different from other people...and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

Well, I don't want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life," declared Anne. "I'm quite content to be Anne of Green Gables, with my string of pearl beads. I know Matthew gave me as much love with them as ever went with Madame the Pink Lady's jewels.

I am of one mind with the Irishman who said you could get used to anything, even to being hanged!