Quotes about Acceptance

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: This too shall pass.

I will never be able to do or be everything you want, nor vice versa, but I'd like to think we can be the sort of people who will dare to tell each other who we really are. The alternative is silence and lies, which are the real enemies of love.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but Do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test. Do you love me stripped of everything that might be lost, for only the things I will have for ever?

Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives.

To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.

The love of flowers is a consequence of modesty and an accommodation with disappointment. Some things need to go permanently wrong before we can start to admire the stem of a rose or the petals of a bluebell.

A spouse who gets angry at having been betrayed is evading a basic, tragic truth: that no one can be everything to another person.

We are idiots now, we have been idiots in the past and we will be idiots again in the future - and that is OK.

Compatibility is an achievement of love, it shouldn't be the precondition of love.

If we accord importance to the kind of portraits which surround us, it is because we fashion our lives according to their example, accepting aspects of ourselves if they concur with what others mention of themselves.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.