Quotes About Acceptance

If she ever had a child, she would want him to grow up in San Francisco, where Mardi Gras was celebrated at least five times a year.

men and women, both straight and gay, who don't consider sexuality in measuring the worth of another human being. These aren't radicals or weirdos, Mama. They are shop clerks and bankers and little old ladies and people who nod and smile to you when you meet them on the bus. Their attitude is neither patronizing nor pitying. And their message is so simple: Yes, you are a person. Yes, I like you. Yes, it's all right for you to like me too.

I busted my butt trying to be everything to one person. Finally, I had to settle for being one thing to every person.

It's clearer and clearer as I get older that sometimes people that you share blood with are not coming along with you on the ride.

That's all I know, except that he's probably straight." The landlady gave him a sly smile. "That's what he told you? He's probably straight?" He laughed. "Well, he's currently in love with Bruce Springsteen, so I just assumed he was." "Now wait a minute.

Lea: I hate the world so much right now that I'm so scared of that day when the world starts hating me back for it. Greg: To hell with the world, Lea!! Fuck it if the world doesn't need you!! I need you!!

You are born in a human form, and you find joy in it. Yet there are ten thousand other forms endlessly transforming that are equally good, and the joy in these is untold. The sage dwells among those things, which can never be lost, and so he lives forever. He willingly accepts early death, old age, the beginning and the end, and serves as an example for everyone.63

Naarmate de stilte langer duurde, nam de pijn toe. De tijd heelt niet alle wonden, ontdekte hij, de tijd scheurt wonden open, zorgt voor vergiftigingen en ontstekingen. De dood maakt misschien een einde aan alle pijn, de tijd laat dat na.

Niets is ondraaglijker dan geluk, het is alleen te doen als je weet dat je op het punt staat het te verliezen. Houden van is een activiteit voor vliegvelden en stations, en crematoria natuurlijk.

Van zichzelf mag hij er niet zijn, dat hij er toch is komt omdat hij het zijn ouders niet aan kan doen er niet te zijn. Geen liefde kan aan de sensatie er van jezelf niet te mogen zijn een eind maken, daarom moet je er ook niemand mee lastig vallen.

Vind je me niet mooi?' 'Heel mooi. Mooi zoals mensen mooi zijn die niet lang meer te leven hebben.

Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain.

I've found it's harder for the family of the patient to accept what's happening. In most cases—not all—the dying person has accepted his fate.

The Devil in the Dark] impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.

no on of intelligence resents the inevitable.

no one of intelligence resents the inevitable.

Soon after her beloved young brother was killed, she asked me, "What is the purpose of grief? Does it serve any biological function?

The future is built on the rubbish of the past; wisdom lies in facing that fact, not in fighting against it.

If the present is shitty and the future is worse, the past is all you've got

though surprising and frequently challenged, appeared to be accurate, for simps were quite happy to work fifteen hours a day and did not get bored by the most menial and repetitious tasks.

Hay una regla que he intentado respetar toda mi vida: no pierdas nunca el sueño por problemas que no está en tu mano resolver.

You must know that the English people would never accept a half-black woman as their queen.

He was not the first man, Cliff Leyland told himself bitterly, to know the exact second and the precise manner of his death.

Well, it was unreasonable to expect more. Already he had seen wonders for which many men would have sacrificed their lives. He thought of his dead companions; he had no cause for complaint.