Quotes About Acceptance

The problem had to be with him, FN-2187 thought. That was the only explanation. It was what everyone had been saying all along, after all. He was different. Maybe he was so different he was broken. So he would work to fix it, to be a real stormtrooper, to be one of them. That was, he thought, what he wanted most of all. Not to be alone.

Guilt is an indulgence, it entangles you in the past.

I know, right?" Angelina says. "I don't even think of her as being deaf. I've always thought of her as just being Elena. She was born that way and Mom and Dad raised her—raised all of us—to just see that as a trait, like hair color. Something that didn't define her or us.

Beauty is more than a skin-deep issue. Our outer covering is our calling card. In order to feel great, to do great things, we need to understand that undeniable truth. Everything I've ever done has been to help others in a world that judges them every second of the day.

Shame has a way of cutting one off from everyone one knows. Especially those who might forgive.

Lara and Les came to know something that few understood in the late sixties and seventies: no one can help a troubled person who doesn't think they need it.

the woman he alternately loved and tolerated.

She couldn't face what was really happening. Routine brought comfort.

Telling someone that they'll be all right," Nora told me over coffee one time, "is the last thing anyone wants to hear. Sure, things will get better. Time will diminish the pain. But things will never be all right.

Les came to know something that few understood in the late sixties and seventies: no one can help a troubled person who doesn't think they need it.

It was that she knew that in a very real way the situation was hopeless.

no one can help a troubled person who doesn't think they need it. Indeed

She was bitter toward her parents, estranged from her sisters, and simply marinated in negativity. It was as if she felt some deep hatred of her fate and was too weak to fight against the middleness that was consuming her.

Sense withdrawal means to accept the fact that external stimuli can never truly fulfill us. Once that is accepted, we are free to realize that what we were desperately looking for on the outside was present inside all along.

For they know the approval—and the worth they assign to this approval— would not be there without certain behaviors on their part. Hence, they never experience unconditional love and worth. Yet

If we only love those who agree with us, we are in fact not loving others at all; we are only loving the (assumed) "rightness" of our own ideas!

Only a fool resists the delight of contradiction by nature

Her fatty teenage self had struggled to get thin, saying angrily once, "Inside of me there's a thin person just screaming to get out." And her mom had smiled and said, "Just the one, dear?"—which provoked laughs, and now in memory nearly made her weep.

The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling ,and sewn with rebus threads.Most of the time , the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on .

It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.

If fate doesn't make you laugh, Karla said, in one of my first conversations with her, then you just don't get the joke.

almost everyone I've ever loved is dead. And the only way to live with the constant cull of what you love is to take a little of that cold grave into yourself, every time.

We can deny the past, but we can't escape its torment because the past is a speaking shadow that keeps pace with the truth of what we are, step for step, until we die.

Depression only happens to people who don't know how to be sad.