Quotes About Acceptance

Perfection is a club I resigned from a long time ago.

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.

It's not even a lesson. It's just what it is." Damon holds the baseball up between them. It is hard and white and alive in the sun.

There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered.

Oh stay awhile. sad, sagging flesh and bones gone brittle. Stay in place, aged face, teeth, don't go. Inside and out the flaccid change of bodily parts, mechanics of action, mind's collapsing habits, all echo here in mottled skin, blurred eye, reiterated mumble. Lift to the vacant air some sigh, some sign I'm still inside.

I do not worry about dying – when you get to my age you never think about it, you just carry on with life and enjoy it.' Vernon Jones - Ox & Bucks Light Infantry - D-Day Veteran

Oh, I see. I think. I don't have to actually know things I don't know, I just have to know what they are and realize that they're in the don't-know category." The kid drained the last of a mug of Coke and slammed it down hard on the bar. "That's it!

Oh, I see. I think. I don't have to actually know things I don't know, I just have to know what they are and realize that they're in the don't-know category." The kid drained the last of a mug of Coke and slammed it down hard on the bar. "That's it!" Despite himself, Barton felt proud. He took

I am reassured to know that the straightness of my grain is not a precondition of usefulness to God. And I am humbled to see that out of the twistedness of my wounds, he designs for me a special place of service.

undertow'. It describes (...) how underneath our own everyday lives - the shopping and squabbles and weeding and trips to the vet - there's a sense of being dragged slowly off, not against our will but regardless of it. And fighting the undertow, as children are quick to learn, is not usually the best way of getting back to the beach. Floating along with it, on the other hand, can be fatal. It's really the struggle, the argument with oneself, that interests...

A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle or something somewhere on my body. That's okay

HELLO DARKNESS, MY OLD FRIEND

Someone once said that failure is easier to live with than regret, and it pierced my heart like an arrow.

It's easier to live with failure than with regret.

It isn't going to be better, Maggie. It's going to be different, and different is okay. You just have to learn how to embrace it. Like anything, it takes time. What you have to realize is that crying is God's way of helping us wash away the pain. So don't you ever apologize for crying; it's a reminder to us all that we're human, and that we love our family with our entire being. And that's a beautiful thing.

I had concluded that I no longer shared her faith in a God who controlled the universe like a puppet master pulling and tugging strings and making us all dance. Our lives, I believed, were more like billiard balls on a pool table, ricocheting randomly with the impact of the cue ball. To believe otherwise was to believe that a God to whom my mother had devoted her life had responded by striking down her husband and causing her so much pain. I couldn't accept that.

with a napkin. "Does it ever get better?" Celia set down her wine and put out a hand, taking Maggie's. "You know I'd be lying if I said it did, right?" Maggie nodded. "I know." "In time, though, you learn how to live with the pain. You learn how to live with all the memories, and you learn not to fear them. You learn to embrace them, to welcome them." Maggie started to cry. Celia got up and

When ninety-five percent of your life is good, don't sweat the other five percent.

I'd never thought of Ernie as black. He was just my best friend.

a part of me had always known that i'd stayed in the relationship longer than i should because i lacked the confidence to believe i'd find someone else who would accept me and my condition. i was also smart enough to know that would never happen until i fully accepted me.

Celia laughed. "You're like a seventeen-year-old girl on a prom date. Color is a fact of life, Del. The people who say they don't see color, or race, are the people who do. We see good-looking people and funny people, obnoxious people. Why shouldn't we see something so obvious as color?

You control what you can control. You give the rest to God." By

Tracy knew that some pain never fully resolved. You just suppressed it beneath a façade of normalcy.

el mundo no se detiene para que uno pueda compadecerse de sí mismo. Un día te despiertas y te das cuenta de que tienes que seguir caminando, porque… porque no puedes hacer otra cosa.