Quotes About Acceptance

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, i'll be nice to you. Simple as that!

And I know some shits so hard to swallow, but I just can't sit back and wallow In my own sorrow.

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

This is a bad story." "Sorry. I'm really sorry. I shouldn't have told you." "No, you should," I say. "But—" "I don't want there to be bad stories and me not know them.

he had discovered some astonishing things. It was possible for Vere Ashleigh to find friendship with the type of man he had formerly disliked; it was possible to earn the respect and camaraderie of such men by being himself. An imposter they would not tolerate; a producer of life-like pen-portraits they had taken to their hearts.

Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.

It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed. I don't think I was smarter or as beautiful as the other girls he did this to. It's just that I was me. It was all I had.

It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity. It's the same with self-loathing. You're probably just normal and normal-looking but that's not a real identity, not the way ugliness is. Normality, just accepting that you're probably normal-looking, lacks the force field of self-disgust. If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.

Love him as he is," she said. "That will give him the strength he needs to face the world.

Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she with silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

The past cannot be changed by worry or guilt; therefore, both are useless. - Celeste Talbot

Regret isn't a negative. Wishing we could do better isn't bad... And if you let go of that regret, if you forget about consequence, then what are you? Who are you?

It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit." ~Emmanuel

La phrase : "Je suis homme et rien de ce qui est humain ne m'est étranger" me semble être, sinon le dernier mot de la sagesse, en tout cas l'un des plus profonds, et ce que j'aime chez Etienne, c'est qu'il le prend à la lettre, c'est même ce qui selon moi lui donne le droit d'être juge. De ce qui le fait humain, pauvre, faillible, magnifique, il ne veut rien retrancher, et c'est aussi pourquoi dans le récit de sa vie je ne veux, moi, rien couper.

Sono un assassino. La mia immagine agli occhi della società è la peggiore che possa esistere, ma è più facile da sopportare che i miei vent'anni di menzogne

no tengo una sensación de alivio, pero sí al menos

Je n'ai jamais été aussi libre, jamais la vie n'a été aussi belle. Je suis un assassin, j'ai l'image la plus basse qui puisse exister dans la société, mais c'est plus facile à supporter que les vingts ans de mensonge d'avant.

But admiration is not love. Love wants proximity, reciprocity, the acceptance of vulnerability. Love alone does not say what we spend our lives saying, all the time, to everyone: 'I am worth more than you.' Love has other ways of finding reassurance, another authority that doesn't come from above but below.

Bisognerà, un giorno o l'altro, accettare o volere la conversione che dobbiamo vivere, noi cristiani per tradizione, più fortemente di ogni altro;

la disperazione è il peccato più grave, perché è il rifiuto a trarre profitto dalle infecondità dell'insuccesso

Non voglio che si perdano questi giorni, dobbiamo accettarli per quello che sono: giorni pieni d'una grazia sconosciuta

non resta che la sofferenza per riconciliarsi con le cose e con la vita stessa.