Quotes About Acceptance

Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

Accept it with the nude that is in you and you will always be in fashion."

Changing the mirror doesn't improve your life.

Loud music doesn't bother the deaf.

Loud sound does not bother the deaf."

I've always thought that if little straight boys were taught that the one surefire, telltale sign of repressed homosexuality was the beating and killing of gay men—and the truth is lurking around that idea somewhere—then gay-bashing would shrivel away within a generation.

Learning to love yourself, is the greatest love all

I can't run from myself There's nowhere to hide

There is no use in trying to judge everything but the condition you are in right now. You are absolutely delusional if you think that you know anything right now.

A Bargain's Not A Bargain If Nobody Likes It.

I burst out crying because I realized something right then and there: death was going to take her someday. Because she'd grow old and wrinkly, you see, and fill up with pain until it extinguished her, and it just ... seemed intolerable. Shouldn't it? I mean, even a diamond is forever, and a diamond can't grip your finger.

You've got to stop worrying about a choice you made fifteen years ago, because you can't change it.

One of the best things I've ever done was take a close look at my mental health and accept that I wasn't doing fine.

They lived in a world where mental illness was equated with weakness, and shame, and as a result, I suffered until I was in my thirties.*

I have no idea what depression even was until I was in my twenties, once I was pretty sure that I had it, I suffered with it for another fifteen years, because I was ashamed, I was embarrassed, and I was afraid.

And if everything is geeky, maybe nothing is geeky, and that means that gate-keeping in geek and nerd culture is a pointless waste of time.

It's hard to accept that the genetic lottery gives us strengths, maybe even a superpower or two, but that it also gives us vulnerabilities.

we in America have done a lot to help people who live with mental illness, we have not done nearly enough to make it okay for our fellow travelers on the wonky brain express to reach out and accept that help.

The difference is a matter of shifts in society . . . and in me. These shifts aren't meant to be an excuse of any kind. I'm happy for the shifts, as it has brought (at least some of) the world to a more enlightened place. A place just a touch freer of bigotry and hatred, including within myself.

So don't you ever let a person make you feel bad because you love something they decided is only for nerds. You're loving a thing that's for you>.

That includes the gross parts, which I am learning to accept (without condoning) through the words of the great Bob Ross: "You can't have light without a little darkness.

It's painful to recall, but I'm not ashamed, because all those thoughts—which I thankfully don't have anymore, thanks to medical science and therapy—were not my fault any more than the allergies that clog my sinuses when the trees in my neighborhood start doin' it every spring are my fault. It's just part of who I am. It's part of how my brain is wired, and because I know that, I can medically treat it, instead of being a victim of it.