Quotes About Acceptance

I hate the loss of diversity in the world, even though I sometimes get tired of embodying that diversity. I don't wish for anyone in particular to be gay, but the idea of no one being gay makes me miss myself already.

Many coping strategies have a Zen simplicity. Instead of resolving chaos, find beauty and happiness amid chaos. I am reminded of a friend who said that when she found out her husband couldn't fill her needs, she changed her needs;

Pot fi, într-o relaÈ›ie imperfect?, mult mai bine decât când sunt singur?.

It is this acute awareness of transience and limitation that constitutes mild depression.

I believe that pain needs to be transformed but not forgotten; gainsaid but not obliterated.

I think that while I hated being depressed, and I would hate to be depressed again, I found a way to love my depression. I love it because it has forced me to find and cling to joy. I love it because each day I decide, sometimes gamely, and sometimes against the moment's reason, to cleave to the reasons for living and that, I think, is a highly privileged rapture.

But parents may also seek surgical fixes because they feel like they will know how to be a parent to that child, whereas

Aunque muchos de nosotros nos sentimos orgullosos de lo diferentes que somos de nuestros padres, nos entristece lo diferentes que nuestros hijos son de nosotros.

I think all love is one-third projection and one-third acceptance and never more than one-third knowledge and insight.

Time doesn't heal, it just gives you other things to think about.

The once terrible was now commonplace, meaning that people accepted it as the norm and went on living, instead of getting needlessly agitated.

Odd times to be a child in. An odd country, an odd life which he had no desire to make sense of. To endure, full stop, that was all he wanted.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. My mother didn't love me. So what. My husband won't ball me. So what. I'm a success but I'm still alone. So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.

If everyone isn't beautiful, then no one is.

If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for your own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is where having them won't make you go crazy.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not.

When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes—they're not part of the good picture you want.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say 'so what'. That's one of my favorite things to say.

I think everybody should like everybody.

Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes—they're not part of the good picture you want.

It makes no since to fight a war that is already won.

Before one finds peace with God, he must have lived, loved and lost something of value to him.

I've never been one to mourn the passing of what could have been a promising relationship. When Jeff broke my heart in the ninth grade, I decided then and there that if a guy couldn't see that I was something special, I'd say good-bye with no regrets. Not that I think I'm more special than anyone else, mind you. But if a thing is not meant to be, I figure it's just not part of God's infinite plan.