Quotes about Acceptance

Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you.

The secret to a good life isn't in getting what you want; it's in learning to want what you get. I'm learning to want what I've got and not to think about the rest so much.

We all have scars. It's when you're honest about them that you find the people who will love you in spite of your nicks and dents. Perhaps even because of them. The people who don't? Those people aren't the ones for you.

I want a pain I understand instead of the one I don't. I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not

A life can be blessed without your ever deserving it. You can be loved by people just because they choose to love you.

One thing that discovering my own history had taught me is that we must learn not to whip ourselves for the failures of others. When a mother cannot love and protect her children, it is not the children who are defective.

Families aren't dictated by geography, or biology, or the chemistry of chromosomes and DNA. There is, in fact, no perfect science to it at all.

I've finally come to fully understand that you can't fix another person. You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it. You have to wait for other people to fix themselves.

The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get. Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you." She

What should matter is whether or not you can live with who you are.

Life happens, Lindsey. It just......does. the fact that you didn't plan something doesn't mean it's going to end in disaster. Let loose a little bit before you kill yourself. have a little faith.

Tightening my fingers, I held on. "Honey, the farther you go in life, the more you realize that most people aren't trying to hurt anybody. They're just trying to . . . get by. People don't always make the right decisions—even the people we love. I know Jake loves us. He's just trying to . . . find his way right now.