The best you can sometimes do is learn to take a breath, count to ten and simply accept that try as you might, no, your husband will never, ever learn not to drop a wet towel on the bed. That...

Whatever God has planned for me, that's what's going to happen.

If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too.

I don't like to say 'dork' and 'nerd' and things like that because I think that everyone is cool in their own right.

My sister is a mess. I love her to death, but she is a mess.

When I was at home I was in a better place but travellers must be content.

He who doesn't accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

One of the signs of maturity is a healthy respect for reality - a respect that manifests itself in the level of one's aspirations and in the accuracy of one's assessment of the difficulties which...

Different denotes neither bad nor good, but it certainly means not the same.

Happiness was not a word that seemed to apply anymore, when she had lost so many close to her. There was a contentment that felt deeper, that acknowledged and accepted the quieter offerings of small...

Love is love. It doesn't matter what kind it is.

They were both sad that their love had died, but they agreed that there was nothing they could do about it. They would just have to part.

I have to start loving what comes next and stop hating I won't be a part of it.

Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have so we might as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather...

Did you know that true love asks for nothing? Her Acceptance is the way we pay.

I used to think poorly of our difference, that I wanted to be with you every minute of every day, you don't see things the way I do when it comes to love, and that friction may be the reason I love...

They weren't smiling and were looking in opposite directions, but it was as if their bodies flowed smoothly into each other's, through their arms and fingers. . . . There was a shared space between...

I would much rather lose people than compromise my beliefs & values to please them.

You'd better make friends with Time, because sooner or later it will catch up with you.

You have two choices in life: Live the life you want or live the life of acceptance.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, Chase, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.

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At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and...

When you have no choice, you have no discontent either.

Allow yourself to think that the possibility of failure is a necessary part of parenting well... . Avoiding the possibility of failure means avoiding the possibility of being an extraordinary parent -...

If we all desire love and acceptance, shouldn't we love and accept all others?

The older I get, the more I believe that the greatest kindness is acceptance.

Chuang-tzu once told a story about two persons who both lost a sheep. One person got very depressed and lost himself in drinking, sex, and gambling to try to forget this misfortune. The other person...

The most wonderful type of love, she had learned, was the kind built with care and over time, through forgiveness and understanding, compromise and compassion, trust and acceptance. It was hidden in...