Quotes about Acceptance

The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is. God uses whatever is usable in a life, both to speak and to act, and those who insist on fireworks in the sky may miss the electricity that sparks the human heart.

If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.

I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

I walked through the valley of my fate, is all, and learned to love what I could lose.

Yet I stake a claim, I am here, for I must be somewhere. But only as a child it seems, struggling to understand what every wife and gentleman passing on the street seems to know by rote. Whom to love, whom to castigate.

There's people I love. But there's so many other kinds of love, too. And people act so hateful to every kind but their own.

I didn't wish to be comforted. "You can't replace people you love with other people," I said. "They're not like old shoes or something." "No. But you can trust that you're not going to run out of people to love.

if you look hard enough you can always see reasons, but you'll go crazy if you think it's all punishment for your sins.