Quotes About Acceptance

A lot of people move around in life chronically ashamed of how they look, or how they feel, or what they said, or what they did. It's like a permanent adolescent concern. Adolescence is when you're permanently concerned about what other people think of you.

Resisting change does not change the truth that change is constantly happening.

We judge others based on our love level. When we are full of love we have no room left for judgment.

Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality.

The reason God wants you to be His son or daughter is that He wants you to be free. Free from pressure. Free from worry. Free from comparison. Free from sin. Free to be . . . you. Who you are is not determined by what you do. Who you are is determined by whose you are.

PRONOIA: The irrational belief that people like you

At the very core of conservatism lies comfort with contradiction, acceptance of the fact that life is not fair; that ideals must forever be goals, not destinations; that the perfect is not the enemy of the good but one standard by which we understand what is good in the first place—though not the only standard.

Are you worried you're not like everyone else? Your worries will only worsen when you find that the path to conformity is different for each person.

Men snälla lilla hjärtat, jag är jude, jag firar inte heller jul, men nu pratar vi om att dekorera lägenheten och då är jag helt med. Du kan sätta dig där. Jag heter Paul. Du hette Benjamin. Vanvettigt vackert namn förresten.

En sista sak bara, vännen, så att jag inte missat någonting... /.../ Du vet väl om att du är homosexuell, eller hur?

Genom att begränsa sin kontext till att bara gälla likasinnade uppnår man normalitet. Det kan vara livsfarligt, men det kan också vara livsnödvändigt. Varje människa har behov av att åtminstone tillfälligtvis få uppleva sig normal.

De gör oss hetero igen efter vi dött. För annars vet de inte hur de skall sörja oss. Oss och våra misslyckade liv.

Stående i kalsongerna mitt på golvet i sitt gamla pojkrum, med ansiktet svullet av gråt och brist på sömn och med rösten darrande av rädsla och beslutsamhet. "Jag är homosexuell. Så. Nu vet ni.

och det var snarare det som gjorde honom desperat, att han insåg att det gick att gå vidare, att det inte var något av det som hade varit så stort som var stort nog att han skulle minnas det på riktigt [...]

Some day, years later, in our memories, we'll return back to these places, and we'll toss about and we won't be able to sleep, thinking, remembering...it will all come back and we won't be able to change anything... So I wish that then, years later, you wouldn't regret anything and you wouldn't want to change anything at all - a life lived perfectly, a perfect memory...

O, you heavenly charmers, What things you make of us! For what we lack We laugh, for what we have are sorry, still Are children in some kind. Let us be thankful For that which is, and with you leave dispute That are above our question. Let's go off, And bear us like the time.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

it is okay to have anxiety. What is not okay is to let your anxiety control you.

No use of getting upset over the way things are..

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.

Yo can always take back the lost parts of yourself if you can find and recognize them.

The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to some extent, is what I remain in my own eyes, to this day. The knowledge never goes, can never be undone. You just have to find a way to live with it.

life only starts to make sense when you realize that sometimes - often - all the time - two completely contradictory ideas can be true. Everything that led up to you was wrong. Therefore, you should not have been born. But everything about you is right: you had to be born. You were inevitable.