Quotes about Acceptance

but the cat rejoices even over a lean mouse.

When something goes 'wrong,' it is not the outer event that ought to be changed, but our inner state which responds to it. If we can build inner balance, we will no longer be blown over by the slightest gust, whether 'good' or 'bad'.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead.

I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.

But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.

He was down and out, the Catholics took him in, and before he knew it, he had faith. So it was gratitude that decided the issue, most likely. Human decisions are terribly simple.

Whether it's good luck or bad to be born onto this earth, the best way to spend a life here is to let yourself be carried along, as I am at this moment, by a cheerful, noisy crowd moving forward.

Franz could not accept that the fact that the glory of the Grand March was equal to the comic vanity of its marchers.