Quotes About Acceptance

How do you know when it's time to let go?

Life has a funny way of turning you into the one thing you don't want to be.

I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

STERCUS FIT. Latin for "Shit Happens.

There is no such thing as an alternative fact," said Rudy. "The truth is only ever the truth. What changes is whether we accept it, even if it is inconvenient and contrary to the truth we'd prefer.

but some people don't care as much about pain. They know it, they're used to it; it may not be an old friend, but it is an old companion.

The real world was never cool enough for anyone to accept a costumed supervillain. Which

It was why Lilah did not fear death. So many of the people she loved were waiting for her there.

Hate is the shield the weak use against the knife thrusts of acceptance." He hated that, too. CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE The historian stood before the dais, his arms heavy with books and scrolls, his heart heavy with dread.

Death walked everywhere and there was no one who didn't know the sound of the Reaper's voice.

I'm not a Jew. I'm Jew-ish. I don't go the whole hog.

Have you ever considered that you are a valuable human being, not despite your differences but because of them?

My dad is the kind of dad who tried to eliminate himself. My dad's story is all too common, because when we don't fit in, many of us believe we shouldn't exist, and we try, as my dad did, as I did, to disappear.

What I can tell you is what I learned from Jeff, and that is this: If you watch the strange, the other, the bizarre long enough, if you really see these people, you will find familiar pieces of yourself in their experiences. Empathy may be our only hope. I found in Jeff not just something familiar but also a better way to live.

We are all only temporarily able bodies and minds. Statistically, what have been labeled mental and physical "abnormalities" or disabilities are essential to the human condition, are in fact the human condition.

What is never recognized can never be healed.

Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

Creation is filled with soul-sick folks, colored and white, never knowing where they belong. They tangle everybody else up in their grief.

Calming ain't curing, is it, girl?

Just remember this, girl, the water you hate is the water that's going to drown you.

it has faced the challenge of establishing its relevance to baby boomers who reject the Leisure World model of late adulthood

I am trying to be more attentive to the moment and appreciative of where I am at. That's part of wisdom, right?

What if I had become a chronically dissatisfied person?

IT IS VERY difficult for an ordinary heterosexual to imagine that an ordinary homosexual is in fact not, deep inside, a repressed heterosexual who needs to try harder with women or just get his act together.