Quotes About Acceptance

Um grande obstáculo em um relacionamento de um casal é a fantasia da perfeição, a exigência de que o outro deve ser perfeito ou de que eu mesmo devo ser perfeito.

Bear no malice for the ones who leave you.

I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient—in America.

What to do when the whole world was on fire and you didn't have the equipment to put out the flames, when the fire was in you as much as it was around you, and no matter what you did or did not do, your actions would change nothing?

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

truth only comes when you're ready to face it!

It is many years ago and at times I know nothing about her anymore who was once all things to me but all things pass. (The Eleventh Psalm)

Von der Freundlichkeit der Welt (Bertold Brecht 1921) Auf die Erte voller kaltem Wind Kamt ihr alle als ein nacktes Kind. Frierend lagt ihr ohne alle Hab Als ein Weib euch eine Windel gab. Keiner schrie euch, ihr wart nicht begehrt Und man holte euch nicht im Gefaehrt. Hier auf Erden wart ihr unbekannt Als ein Mann euch einst nahm an der Hand. Von der Erde voller kaltem Wind Geht ihr all bedeckt mit Schorf und Grind. Fast ein jeder hat die Welt geliebt, Wenn man ihm zwei Haende Erde gibt.

Komm, geh mit angeln, sagt der Fischer zum Wurm.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life

To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.

No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?

To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Life wasn't always fair, she thought, but there it is. You took what was handed you and make the best of it.

It is no good telling yourself that one day you will wish you had never made that change; it is no good anticipating regrets. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.

And so a greater share of the night, Laura shed tears into her soft white pillow. Some of them were for old Oscar Lutz.... Some of them were for the general sad fact that hours fly and flowers die. But most of them were shed because of her own sudden and definite realization that even though there come new days and new ways,--love stays.

I stopped trying to rank sorrow, realized that the world has sorrow enough for all of us, and when some of it falls to you the best hope you have is letting yourself suffer through it.

I would not be okay for so long that when okay arrived it couldn't place me.

I stopped trying to tank sorrow, realized that the world has sorrow enough for all of us, and when some of it falls to you the best hope you have is letting yourself suffer through it. I suffered through it. I suffer through it.

I feel sorry... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren't their idea of beautiful and therefore aren't their idea of useful, and I had to find ways to become useful to myself.

My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.

I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and 'Rolling Stone ' and like I think it's really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don't, then you'll never be able to break that barrier.

I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.