#Acceptance

"My heart was in my mouth. I realised that I had no desire to know any more about her past. What was behind her made me feel sick, petrified. Only the future mattered now."

"There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense the short periods of time we get with people, or the outcomes from their choices. However, if you turn it over to God he promises that you will see the big picture in the hereafter. Nothing is too small to be a mistake."

"There’s a drive in a lost soul—in one that is searching for acceptance, companionship, belonging, whatever you want to call it. The slightest coincidence ignites a spark that one hopes will lead to something meaningful."

"You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining."

"A weed is but an unloved flower."

"Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are."

"All we know is what we're told."

"You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved."

"Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself."

"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."

"The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply."

"To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous."

"The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance."

"All my failures as a human being I blame on my father. Life is about accepting responsibility, and it’s time my father started being held accountable for my deficiencies."

"To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers."

"Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery."

"We can accept and embrace our pasts as part of the path that shaped who we are now."

"Body love is more than acceptance of self or the acceptance of the body. Body love is about self-worth in general. It's more than our physical appearance."

"We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations."

"The four stages of acceptance:1. This is worthless nonsense.2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.3. This is true, but quite unimportant.4. I always said so."(Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464)"