Quotes About Acceptance

Refusal to accept reality does not change reality. My girlfriend broke up with me. I said, "I can't imagine you leaving me." She said, "Well, let me help. You stay here. I'm going to turn around. Then I'm going to start walking. To you, it'll seem like I'm getting smaller."

Real intimacy is a place where there are no mistakes, at least not in the sense you feel. You don't just blow everything with one wrong move.

You can only go into mourning by transfiguration or disfigurement. There is no rational form of the absorption of death.

Dead periods have to be left to take their chances. This goes for the present too, which we should not try to disturb in its melancholy deliquescence.

My past has absolutely no attraction for me, but meanwhile I'm stumbling around in the dark trying to find the doorknob into my future." "The doorknob? Have you even found the damn door yet?" "No," Frank admits. "Then quit looking for the knob! When you find the door, then you can start worrying about how to open it. 'Til then, relax." Mary

Worrying about the future is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life will always be things that never crossed your worried mind.

Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

Nothing's gonna change my world.

And in my hour of darkness, She is standing right in front of me Speaking words of wisdom, "let it be"

Rain, I don't mind Shine, the weather's fine

Forse essere a casa è questo, non avere il bisogno e nemmeno la pretesa di vedere tutto bello. Guardare le cose come sono, vederle intere, senza offenderle.

Por qué será tan difícil la vida? ¿Por qué no podemos ser como somos y que nos acepten como tales? ¿Por qué no puedo ser yo, sencillamente, tal como soy ahora, sin necesidad de concentrarme, de mortificarme sobre mi pasado y sobre mi futuro?

What do you know about love? Are your feelings more holy than mine? Am I exempt from the knowledge of love until I become "of age?" Do I automatically become human enough when I start loving you and seeing things your way?

I feel rotten but I can't change the way I feel.

I used to be one of those guys with a lot of angst, you know? I just don't anymore. I'm not angst-ridden anymore. I've faced reality of what I am and what I have to do in life.

We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.

One thing I am sure of is that I won't judge a dance reality show.

I think what people have to just naturally give me the respect for is the fact that me being a woman and no matter what I've done, fault to mistakes or right to wrong, that I'm able to step out and be like, 'This is who I am and this is who I love to be with. This is what it is, this is my life. I'm on a reality show so you get what you get.'

I get labelled a ditzy, blonde reality TV person, which is fine.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

When I went to prom in the early 1990s, I seesawed between my wish to get asked by the right guy and ride in the cool kids' limousine with the burgeoning realization that I was gay. I had a fun night, but I was far from my authentic, assertive self that night. Prom felt mostly like a job I had to do to maintain my position in the social hierarchy.

We march on toward the realization of the American Dream. We are not diverted by those who would deny opportunity based on what we look like or where we came from or who would deny equality based on who we love.

The realization that I'm never going to run again, the feeling through my hair when you run... you're still a kid. You still have so much life to live.

Some people's gender identity conforms to the sex they were assigned at birth, and some people's identity doesn't. That realization was certainly very freeing for me - and could be very freeing for other people.