Quotes about Acceptance

Love only what befalls thee and is spun for thee by fate. For what can be more befitting for thee?

God give me patience to reconcile with what I am not able to change. Give me strength to change what I can. And give me wisdom to distinguish one from another.

All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.

Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.

I, too, was once like you: fatally hooked on life.

I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into a stone and falling down into the ground. That did work a little. But in my visualization a plant covered with poison berries would grow out of the stone, whether I wanted it to or not.

I'm fine, said Pilar, for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.

She talks with wolves, without knowing what sort of beasts they are: Where have you been all my life? they ask. Where have I been all my life? she replies.

Nobody's heart is perfect.

This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.

Now maybe I wouldn't do it, but I was a child then, said Oryx more softly. Why are you so angry? I don't buy it, said Jimmy. Where was her rage, how far down was it buried, what did he have to do to dig it up? You don't buy what? Your whole fucking story. All this sweetness and acceptance and crap. If you don't want to buy that, Jimmy, said Oryx, looking at him tenderly, what is it that you would like to buy instead? (167)

In the daylight we know what's gone is gone, but at night it's different. Nothing gets finished, not dying, not mourning;