Quotes About Acceptance

All my life I dreamed of having someone think I was beautiful.

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.

It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.

Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.

I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.

I'm not a bad person. I haven't killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don't kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?

Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.

When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.

Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.

She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.

I finished the [blog] post reflecting on the fact that, despite all the changes in my life, maybe I wasn't so different after all. If I typed it, maybe I could believe it, too.

And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.

Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken.

She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.

I get on with all my exes, so there's nothing I need to forget about. I don't know - life is shorter than it seems.

...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.

The best things in life cannot be willed into being.

Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.

It's not an easy choice, but that's OK. Easy doesn't equal good. Difficulty doesn't equal bad. It's just life, is all.

I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.

I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.

Now today, moment by moment, realize that each person and event that happens is life for you. Life is not somewhere else. See how fully you can accept the life that presents itself to you now.