Quotes About Acceptance

We'd be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we'd become, or live with regret and disappointment.

say she wasn't sincerely happy for me, but with every new beginning, there is an inevitable end we must first accept

Besides, I no longer believed in God's will. I was not willing to accept that it was God's will for a good man like my father, a devoted man, to spend his final days in some care facility.

failure is easier to live with than regret

She could get upset, but what good would that do? Bitterness was never a good recipe for happiness.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. Justice Felix Frankfurter Henslee v. Union Planters Bank, 1949.

Life's a bitch, kid. And then you die.

For better or for worse—and too often it is for worse for so many of us—adulthood had arrived, whether I wanted it to or not.

We'd be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we'd become, or live with regret and disappointment. My

You're human, Tracy, which means you're not perfect. You're going to fail, through no fault of your own. That's part of being human, being imperfect. The question is, can you live with being imperfect? Can you live with failure?

He didn't have to maintain his pride or protect his image. I wasn't his parent or his priest, so he had no obligation to confess. I didn't judge him, so he had no reason to be defensive. I didn't expect him to be anyone, so he had no reason to be anyone but himself. He just needed to get those stories out, to purge an evil spirit.

You just do your job, Tracy, and the chips will fall where they fall. You get me?

This was also his MO. Excuses for his behavior so he wouldn't have to accept what he'd done.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

That's not to say she wasn't sincerely happy for me, but with every new beginning, there is an inevitable end we must first accept, and my mother was struggling to accept that her boy had finished high school and would be leaving home in just a few short months.

You won't heal, never completely, but it will get better with time.

We'd be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we'd become, or live with regret and disappointment

None of us is getting out of here alive. But it doesn't have to be today.

You are every bit as normal as any other boy, in here, where it counts. Our skin, our hair, and our eyes are simply the shell that surrounds our soul, and our soul is who we are. What counts is on the inside.

Reality could be painful to acknowledge, but there came a point when we all realized we weren't going to walk on the moon, star in a Hollywood movie, or be president of the United States. We'd be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we'd become, or live with regret and disappointment.

Have faith in God's will." Then she closed her eyes. They would be the last words she ever spoke to me.

clear implication is that the failure to accept, protect, and love a child—or, what is worse, the active harming of a child—would preclude real contact with Jesus.

There is grace for everything: grace to come and grace to go, grace to speak and grace to keep silent, grace to mourn and grace to dance, grace to weep and grace to laugh, grace to pack and grace to unpack, grace to be sick and grace to heal, grace to plant and grace to harvest, grace to tear down and grace to build up, grace to love and grace to hate, grace to live and grace to die. From beginning to end, life becomes a rhapsody of grace. Even the desire for grace comes by grace.

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.