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Quotes About Acceptance

He said that black sheeps express everyone else's anger and pain. It's not that they have all the anger and pain-they're just the only ones who let it out. Then the other people don't have to.
~ Francesca Lia Block
Think of your pain like a bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.
~ Francesca Lia Block
I think when you are born an angel should say to you, hopefully kindly and not in that fake voice of an airline attendant: Here you go on this long, long dream. Don't even try to wake up. Just let it go until it is over. You will learn many things. Just relax and observe because there just is pain and that's it mostly and you aren't going to be able to escape no matter what. Eventually it will all be over anyway. Good Luck.
~ Francesca Lia Block
I dont know about happily ever after… but I know about happily, Weetzie Bat thought..
~ Francesca Lia Block
If Death is your father, you don't ever have to worry about what part of his body the disease will strike next. If Death is your lover, you don't have to be afraid that he will ever leave you.
~ Francesca Lia Block
Relieved because what I dreaded most in the whole world was going to happen and I wouldn't have to live with it anymore—the fear. There is the relief of finally not being alone and the relief of being alone when no one can take anything away from you. Here she was, my beautiful fear. Shiny as crystal lace frost.
~ Francesca Lia Block
In order to have bliss you have to be able to accept all the parts of the other, all the wildness and the darkness. You have to be able to hold on.
~ Francesca Lia Block
Welcome Beauty, banish fear.
~ Francesca Lia Block
The lesson of this life is not for me to touch you again. It is to accept who I am now and not feel shame.
~ Francesca Lia Block
If you were sad about something that hadn't happened yet you couldn't be disappointed.
~ Francesca Lia Block
They knew, though, she would not suffer as they had suffered. She was perfect. They were scarred.
~ Francesca Lia Block
Some people think you begin to grow up when you stop trying to figure out who you are.
~ Francesca Lia Block
We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters.
~ Francesca Lia Block
Be love because you are.
~ Francesca Lia Block
My pain is ugly, Angel Juan. I feel like I have so much ugly pain,' says Witch Baby in a dream. 'Everyone does,' Angel Juan says. 'My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.
~ Francesca Lia Block
believe him when he tells you you are beautiful it will only hurt you both not to (it is true besides)
~ Francesca Lia Block
Take my eye, I say. I have another.
~ Francesca Lia Block
So the spell was broken and she ran home through a tangle of words where the letters jumbled and made no sense and meant nothing, and the words were ugly and she was not to be heard or seen, she was blemished and too fat, too thin, not smart, too smart, not beautiful, not a woman not not not. All the things that girls feel they are not when they fear that if they become, if they are, they will no longer be loved by the sisters whose hearts they have not meant to break.
~ Francesca Lia Block
My baby brother would never call Hex soft. Not Hex. And not me, either. Not anymore. Not any fucking more.
~ Francesca Lia Block
From the time she is very young, all Plum wants is this: to be loved for who she is with complete and awesome devotion. She tries to dress herself the way she feels on the inside so that the love of her life will recognize her easily.
~ Francesca Lia Block
From the time she is very young, all Plum wants is this: to be loved for who she is with complete and awesome devotion. She tries to dress herself the way she feels inside so that the love of her life will recognize her easily.
~ Francesca Lia Block
Né e pazzi né e savi non possono finalmente resistere a quello che ha a essere: però io non lessi mai cosa che mi paressi meglio detta che quella che disse colui: Ducunt volentes fata, nolentes trahunt.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
That was one plus about profound self-loathing. Nobody could hate you worse than you hated yourself.
~ Francine Pascal
Everybody at Sweet Valley High, even Elizabeth, seemed to forget that there was ever a fat and ugly Robin. But Robin would never forget.
~ Francine Pascal