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Quotes about Acceptance

But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
- Alice Hoffman
They may be nothing like you, he had written, they may surprise you, they may even repel you when their behavior is out of control, when they climb out their windows and drink underage and break every rule, but you will love them in a way you had not thought possible before, no matter who they turn out to be.
- Alice Hoffman
If there be a cure, seek till you find it. If there be none, never mind it.
- Alice Hoffman
But what you give up you can learn to live without, even if it causes you heartbreak at the start.
- Alice Hoffman
You know who you are. And I suggest you never deny it.
- Alice Hoffman
Certain things need not be said, and there's nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what's about to happen.
- Alice Hoffman
Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to catch it, hold it in your hand. It disappears every time.
- Alice Hoffman
Your grief won't go away; it's not a door you can close,or a book you can put back on the shelf,or a kiss you can give back once it's given. This is the way the world is now. Keep the worst things to yourself, like a bone in your throat.
- Alice Hoffman
If you tried to right all the wrongs in the world you'd exhaust yourself in under an hour.
- Alice Hoffman
I never once stopped to consider that what you are given can also be taken away.
- Alice Hoffman
All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it.
- Alice Hoffman
Perhaps what people said was true, that any man who lived long enough would eventually realize that the way in which he was cursed was also the blessing he received.
- Alice Hoffman