“Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.”— Michael J Fox, books.google.com
“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”— Michael J Fox, books.google.com
“People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.com
“Gay bars are therapy for people who can’t afford therapy; temples for people who lost their religion, or whose religion lost them; vacations for people who can’t go on vacation; homes for folk without families; sanctuaries against aggression.”— Richard Kim, thenation.com
“I read the last paragraph of my favorite book. I remind myself that some things I love end. And that’s okay.”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com
“Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue.”— Ellen Degeneres, amazon.com
“Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.”— Ellen Degeneres, amazon.com
“You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter fo…”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.”— Gilda Radner, amazon.com
“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole – like the world, or the person you loved.”— Stewart O'Nan, amazon.com
“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can’t be helped.”— Fritz Perls, echopen.wordpress.com
“If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“There aren't that many ways to find comfort in this world. We must take it where we can get it, even in the darkest, most disgusting places.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“I’d finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted was a way in. I was there now. Or close.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Some of the most told stories are the ones that don’t end well, the ones that are beautiful because someone laid it all on the line, was brave and vulnerable and submitted to the human condition. If that’s your story, its time to stop running from it and start taking pride in the fact that you were…”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“You can drive yourself crazy, or you can get over it. The choice is yours.”— Stephen Holden, nytimes.com
“Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds—our stories about loneliness, rejection, grief, worthlessness—that we don’t realize they are in the past. They can’t hurt us anymore. We are protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened. It’s possible to come back. To see…”— Geneen Roth, amazon.com
“I have learned that when sadness comes to visit me, all I can do is say “I see you.” I spend some time with it, get up, and say goodbye. I don’t push it away, I own it. And because I own it, I let it go.”— Carolina Zacaria, facebook.com