Quotes About Acceptance

Love is better than hate at all times.

If women had power, we wouldn't need Spanx.

Nobody planned on the worst, but they got it just the same and had to deal. He knew the saying that "Man plans and God laughs," but he'd learned the truth was exactly the opposite—Man plans and God cries.

breasts had grown to gargantuan proportions

All right already

They hadn't discriminated against John because he was a man

you very much, and now I'll take

I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.

When you don't have much, having less isn't so bad.

I've never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn't know that there might be another way to live, and I didn't worry about it either.

You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.

Her heart was like a great road with room for everyone.

I saw that deep-heart love meant loving someone in spite of and because of his limitations.

You cannot refuse to eat just because there's a chance of being choked.

But then this is how it is for women everywhere. You experience one lapse in conscience, in how low you think you'll go, in what you'll accept, and pretty soon you're at the bottom

It's fair to say I don't know what I'm doing. I like to plot my life and proceed carefully, but life doesn't always follow a plan.

You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.

It was easier for me to begin picking at Snow Flower's faults than to feel the emotions raging inside of me.

Don't blame yourself for things that maybe happened," she said.

I had always thought it was her way of blinding herself to the messiness of the way we lived. Now I realised it was easier for her mind to go out through the air far above the clouds than to acknowledge the ugliness right before her eyes.

Every one of us could complain, but would that make our situation emotionally easier or physically more comfortable?

Her laugh carries weariness and despair) All you can do is live. You don't have a choice. Life continues whether we want it to or not. The sun will rise despite our suffering.

We've tried to keep her connected to her Chinese background and we've always felt really good about that, but what if, instead of building her Chinese identity, it's only served to make her feel separate from us and not 100 percent our daughter?

A friend without faults will never be found