Quotes About Acceptance

Para un niño, sentirse diferente a los demás es una de las experiencias más duras. Ser el raro, el tonto, el advenedizo, son situaciones que te predisponen contra tu entorno. Si el mundo te acoge con naturalidad y afecto, te sientes más dispuesto a seguir las normas convencionales. De lo contrario, es más posible que desarrolles la tendencia a huir de él. O a volarlo en pedazos.

tak ada yang lebih tabah dari hujan bulan Juni dirahasiakannya rintik rindunya kepada pohon berbunga itu tak ada yang lebih bijak dari hujan bulan Juni dihapusnya jejak-jejak kakinya yang ragu-ragu di jalan itu tak ada yang lebih arif dari hujan bulan Juni dibiarkannya yang tak terucapkan diserap akar pohon bunga itu

Nasib memang diserahkan kepada manusia untuk digarap, tetapi takdir harus ditandatangani di atas materai dan tidak boleh digugat kalau nanti terjadi apa-apa, baik atau buruk.

Nasib memang diserahkan kepada manusia untuk digarap, tetapi takdir harus ditandatangani di atas materai dan tidak boleh digugat kalau nanti terjadi apa-apa, baik atau buruk. Kata yang ada di Langit sana, kalau baik ya alhamdulillah, kalau buruk ya disyukuri saja. (20)

Kesepian adalah benang-benang halus ulat sutera yang perlahan-lahan, lembar demi lembar, mengurung orang sehingga ulat yang ada di dalamnya ingin segera melepaskan diri menjadi wujud yang sama sekali berbeda, yang bisa saja tidak diingat lagi asal-usulnya. Hanya ulat busuk yang tidak ingin menjadi kupu-kupu. (81)

Siapa pun memiliki kemampuan untuk menyesuaikan diri dengan apa pun selama usahanya dilandasi oleh pengertian.

Ia beriman pada takdir, yang tidak mengenal seandainya.

but I say whatever / one loves, is

Sexual harassment works—as does bullying more generally—by increasing the costs of fighting against something, making it easier to accept something than to struggle against something

Queer and feminist worlds are built through the effort to support those who are not supported because of who they are, what they want, what they do.

He has never understood that sometimes real love requires one to let the beloved go. Probably he never will.

Dying shouldn't be so hard," he said. "It shouldn't be harder than living.

There's something your ma said to me a long time ago, I never have forgot it. She said, every one of us has got a few demons that we carry with us wherever we go, whether we want to or not. They can't be shook off or run away from.

Surrender gracefully. In time you'll find it was worth the sacrifice. But it will require time and patience and perhaps most important, a sense of humor.

But the Lord had other plans," Curiosity said. "And he didn't see fit to lift the yoke.

She wasn't healing, that was the wrong word. She was coming to terms with loss.

That's the hardest part, being strong enough to let the hurt in, and deal with it, and then let it settle in time, as it will.

When will you stop thinking of yourself as a burden?

I know my heart will never be the same But I'm telling myself I'll be okay

If it's not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it's a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.

We all want to be someone else. And sometimes we succeed in convincing ourselves we can be. But it doesn't last, and our own true selves, broken and scarred, always win out in the end.

He realized that you can try as hard as you want to escape who you are, but eventually, you realize there is no escape. There's nowhere to run, and nothing to run to. Nothing ever really changes. The state of life on earth is exactly what it is, and the only chance of a happy life is accepting that. Accepting life as it is. And knowing that there is no escape. And that's the only freedom he's ever been able to find.

Sometimes the past comes up on us like a ghost. Sometimes life is like a haunted house. But there's no way to leave. You just have to make your peace with the ghosts.

If you hate yourself enough, you'll start to hate anyone who reminds you of you. And if you stick with it, you'll come to hate anyone who doesn't see how just awful you are.