Quotes About Acceptance

I haven't forgotten one second of how good it felt to hold you, but I wasn't the one who pulled away. You don't want me to be more, do you? I just keep pushing against your walls, and to tell you the truth, baby, my hands are starting to bleed. do you want me gone for good? Look at me, tell me to leave you alone, and I will. I swear I'll get in my truck, drive off, and never bother you again." --Tommy to Shea

Who knows what's for true once a time is past? There's no way to prove how something was that's gone. And if a time is gone, what does it matter? It's all rain into rivers now.

Love made room for conflict. It allowed for the expression of more than one view and invited the paradox that disagreement was vital to harmony. Love required accepting and meant changing oneself rather than demanding change of others.

There is a part of me that wishes you would tell me what I want to hear, but I appreciate that you are being honest about the struggle. It will do," she said. "For now.

she counted it as a blessing that she was familiar making peace with disappointment.

Alex! Your dress!" Landis called after her. "Come down and we'll find you something else to wear!" Alexis shook her head and laughed. "I told the captain I would need a pair of trousers and he refused me! If the sight of my legs is so distasteful, then don't look!" Landis joined the laughter of the others in response to her suggestion. There was certainly nothing wrong with her legs. They all tilted their heads back as they watched her climb higher.

all I could think was how strange it was that it was a messed-up child who barely knew herself who actually had so much to teach me about the business of living. I was suddenly glad of his solidity in a world where it was so easy to fall. It is important not to turn the dead into saints. Nobody can walk in the shadow of a saint. You live. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think about the bruises.

We only hate what we don't understand.

For someone who is invisible, why am I the only one in this family who can't seem to master the art of disappearing?

It's hard living with eternal optimists. No matter how many times life craps on them, they wipe it off their faces and smile. I seem to be the only one who has accepted the truth: there is nothing around that corner but more crap.

the knowledge that change can be frightening, that responsibility can, but that the answer to that is not refusing to change or to accept responsibility.

You don't want anything from them except for them to exist and you to see them sometimes and talk to them, and maybe for them to like you back.

The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any time and someone who doesn't.

We cannot change what has happened. We go on from where we stand. Not even Necessity knows all ends.

You feel what you feel, and I feel what I feel, but that doesn't mean you have to fit us into a story and wreck both our lives.

M]aybe we should have talked about this before. Well, we weren't gods, we couldn't go back and talk about it any earlier than now, but we could talk about it now. We go on from where we are.

We cannot change what has happened. We go on from where we stand. Not even Necessity knows all ends. I

o Sujo: o que aceita as más palavras e pensamentos da gente, e que completa tudo em obra;

Desespero quieto às vezes é o melhor remédio que há.

Esbandalhados nós estávamos, escatimados naquela esfrega. Esmorecidos é que não. Nenhum se lastimava, filhos do dia, acho mesmo que ninguém se dizia de dar por assim. Jagunço é isso. Jagunço não se escabrêia com perda nem derrota — quase que tudo para ele é o igual. Nunca vi. Pra ele a vida já está assentada: comer, beber, apreciar mulher, brigar, e o fim final.

A superstição perniciosa generalizada é que é preciso deletar o anterior, para aceitar o novo. Que pobreza, que pobreza, que pobreza, que atraso! Se a memória aceita, se o perfil confere, se a senha foi dada, roda os dois programas ao mesmo tempo, roda os três, roda os vinte, porra!

Reconhecer que somos irmãos é sempre suspeito, quando esse reconhecer envolve, de nossa parte, a aceitação de condições duras e, da outra parte, não envolve nada além de palavras

When will I ever learn to accept what is given instead of always yearning for more? My lavish expectations too often tarnish my blessings.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.