Quotes About Acceptance

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly---Sam Keen, Author

Aprendemos a amar no cuando encontramos a la persona perfecta, sino cuando llegamos a ver de manera perfecta a una persona imperfecta.

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly

you, Aunt Helga? Are you in hell?" Helga appeared to consider the question seriously, but when her answer came it was with a dismissive gesture. "Oh, no, honey. I'm all right. I'd rather still be at home, but then I'd be completely dependent on people who have their own lives to lead, and that's not very agreeable, either. I don't like it, but I can't say I don't belong here. It's just another thing to make the best of.

If someone called me fat, that affects me way more than someone calling me a f----t. I think just because I've accepted that, if someone calls me a f----t, it's like, I am gay and I'm proud to be gay so there's no issues there. If something calls you fat, that's something I want to change.

There was no question that the captains who made a habit of testing the boundaries of the rules would never be revered by the public the way Derek Jeter was. But this theory suggested that calling their behavior thuggish was an oversimplification. These were aggressive acts that pushed the limits of what's acceptable, but they were also instrumental.

Sometimes I try to go back and remember the me before I was ever diagnosed with a learning disability, back before I ever knew I was different, back to the time when I was just me, without any labels, when I thought the way I saw the world was how everyone saw it.

Some people enjoy humiliation. Maybe I used to be one of those people, but I don't feel humiliation anymore. The body sloughs off cells every day, aging. After all that, what is left to feel humiliated? Very little indeed.

We do not rest because now I know what we are running from, and it looks a lot like death.

Perhaps the year and a half spent trying to make sense of all this has finally drained me Maybe, just maybe, I always know I deserved better, but was too afraid to accept it

I've learned to face my demons, I'm just learning that not everyone can handle them.

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

I am fearful of romantic dinners, huge crowds, dusk - of normal things- afraid to be loved, the one thing I want most. Maybe it's because I don't think I deserve it because I am not that perfect little girl that I was supposed to be, well manicured and well groomed, because I have nervous breakdowns, and take pills, and keep moving on.

Most days I go home crying and my dad tells me welcome to the real world.

This hurts more than anything else because I cannot stop it.

whatever is happening outside, Beta, your must not let it sink into your flesh. Do not punish your body for what it cannot control.

We each have our own beliefs. What is important is not to piush your beliefs onto others.

The interview is never just a formality. It can absolutely make or break your chances of acceptance.

To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.

Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now.

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, thats what Ive had to make the best of.

Nothing to be done. I'm beginning to come round to that opinion.

What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.

If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.