Quotes About Acceptance

It had hurt to accept what was wrong with me, but it hurt even more to have hope.

It wasn't the life I'd wanted, but it was the life I had, and I was finally starting to accept that.

I learned that the cells in our body are replaced every seven years, which means that one day, I'll have a body full of cells that were never sick. sbut it also means that the parts of me that knee and loved Sadie will disappear. I'll still remember loving her, but it'll be a different me who loved her. And maybe that is how we move on. We grow new cells to replace the grieving ones, diluting our pain until it loses potency.

Because the truth is always hard. Because being queer is hard, and coming out is hard, and it never stops being hard. The world keeps shoving into you. But you stand tall anyway. You take up space anyway.

You're funny.' Phoebe passed me the last chocolate cupcake. 'And I always thought your friends were laughing over their own farts.' 'Ninety percent of Eastwood's male population laughs over their own farts. Present company excluded, naturally.

I knew what is was like to have people stare at you with pity. For everyone's gaze to follow you through the hallways as though you were marked by tragedy and no longer belonged. And I could understand why she hadn't wanted that.

Everything of who I was and who I wanted to be had been evicted to make room for this disease.

In AP Bio, I learned that the cells in our body are replaced every seven years, which means that one day I'll have a body full of cells that were never sick. But it also means that the parts of me that knew and loved Sadie will disappear. I'll still remember loving her, but it'll be a different me who loved her. And maybe this is how we move on. We grow new cells to replace the grieving ones, diluting our pain until it loses potency.

But the thing about being a disaster in middle school is that the shame of it never fully goes away. Even after your braces are off and your hair is exactly the way girls wear it on Tumblr, underneath it all, you're still just as unsure whether someone actually likes you, or is only talking to you so they can laugh about it afterward.

the life you plan isn't the life that happens to you.

I thought about the metal in my knee, replacing this piece of me that was missing, that no longer worked. And it wasn't my heart, I kept telling myself. It wasn't my heart.

I'm so sorry. I always felt like there was something off about me, and now I know. I'm broken.' It wrecked me all over again to hear her say that. 'You're not broken.' 'Then how come I can't be fixed?' she asked, shaking as she held back to. 'If I'm not broken, how come no one can fix me?

Do you know who else welcomes everyone to their table?" I asked. "Anyone desperate for friends." He snorted. "Who are you calling desperate?" Nick interrupted, coming over with his tray. "Anyone who would date you," I smiled sweetly. "Whatever, I'm awesome," Nick bused his tray.

The death of a relationship. At least I was dressed for the wake.

Here, Faulkner. Behold the girly texts," Toby said, holding out his phone. "And note that I put up with them solely due to our friendship.

We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present'...'Then maybe we're not mourning the future,' I said. 'We're mourning ourselves.

Like tonight, when everyone dressed as zombies, and you wore that. I mean, don't you want to be like everyone else?" "Not particularly," I said, willing her to finally understand how much I had changed, and how very little she knew about me.

It's strange how we can lose things that are still right there. How a barrier can go up at any moment, trapping you on the other side, keeping you from what you want. How the things that hurt the most are things we once had.

No era la vida que yo había planeado, pero sí la que tenía y, por fin, había empezado a aceptarlo.

We all reach for whatever we think is going to dull the pain, and sometimes we don't even want whatever it is, we just want to not be miserable, you know?

But maybe it was better this way, remembering those few months at the beginning of the year as this wonderful thing was over now, rather than living in Cassidy's world without her

Definitely. I've got posters of girls in bikinis, too. And like, a whole bedside drawer of lube." "I would be disappointed if you didn't." Cassidy laughed.

Leah had not realized until she sat down at the table with her book club friends that she'd been waiting all year for this moment. To reunite with women who understood and didn't judge her, and women whom she could call friends.

Accept the limitations of a place, in humility, and the joys that can also be found there may open themselves.