Quotes About Acceptance

There's nothing better than belonging to a great group of friends and nothing worse than feeling like an outcast. Friends are important but should never become your center.

No one is better or worse than anyone else, just different. You're okay, they're okay.

So often, in our quest to be more popular and to be part of the "in-group," we lose sight of things that are far more important…

if you base your identity on having friends, being accepted, and being popular, you may find yourself compromising your standards or changing them every weekend to accommodate your friends.

Not that it mattered. The people who were dead were still dead.

They just had to eat it,

But sometimes, no matter how hard you try, things just don't work out," Jules said. "You're not always in control of everything, no matter how much you want to be.

He steepled his fingers in monkish solemnity. "You cannot hide from Fate, my son." Sarah grunted. "People don't have fates." "No: fates have people," Jet said, suddenly serious.

some things could never be anticipated, but he could control the way he reacted to them.

Worry all you want," said Master Satele. "Unless there's something you can do about it, I don't see what good it will do.

I'm cool with the way I look, I'm not an ugly dog, but I don't see myself as a stud or anything.

There is a moment in the history of every beaten child when his mind parts with hopes of dignity — pushes off hope like a boat without a rower, and lets it go as it will on the stream, and resigns himself to the tally stick of pain.

No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying.

To the extend that a man with the soul filleted out of him could be happy. Since the things he had wished for were no more, he wished for nothing. He breathed in and out. That was all.

What is this growing old, when even the engine that holds our despair and hope in balance begins to fail us.

Thousands die everywhere always. The world don't care much, it just don't mind much. That's what I notice about it. There is that great wailing and distress and then the pacifying waters close over everything, old Father Time washes his hands. On he plods to the next place.

I am clearly content to be beyond help.

To remember sometimes is a great sorrow, but when the remembering has been done, there comes afterwards a very curious peacefulness. Because you have planted your flag on the summit of the sorrow. You have climbed it.

a person I have come to accept in the way of things here, which, if they can't be changed, they must be endured.

He smiled at me with his barn-wide smile. I knew he didn't think I was a cur of an Indian, not at all. He knew what I was.

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

Sometimes Emma wondered whether the Hairdresser had also given her a system reboot that night in the hotel and restored her emotional hard drive to its factory settings. And clearly she was a dud: defective goods that unfortunately couldn't be exchanged

For all the types of pain that can lead to suffering there is a solution. Through opening our hearts with compassion to the pain that life brings, we can truly cure our pain and avoid our suffering. Then we can walk in the valley of love and experience the vast space within our heart.

There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked.