Quotes About Acceptance

No renuncio a nada, simplemente hago lo que puedo para que las cosas me renuncien a mi.

La vida no tiene vuelta. Como la juventud o el viento, la vida pasa y nunca retorna por más que nos neguemos a aceptarlo.

Todas las épocas se terminan y lo mejor es dejar que se desvanezcan en lugar de prolongarlas artificialmente en el tiempo como he visto hacer a muchos ignorando que la naturaleza de éste es precisamente su fugacidad.

Entonces, todavía, no podía o no quería darme cuenta. Pero, ahora, sé muy bien que todo aquello era una simple forma de ocupar el día en lo que fuera, una manera de mentirle al cielo y a mí mismo para tratar de no pensar, para tratar de no volverme loco antes de tiempo.

If I canot know your name, may I light a lamp so I can see your face?' If you sould ever see my face, you will lose me forever.' Why?' Psyche wanted to know. 'Are you ugly? Are you afraid I won't love you if I see your face?' Perhaps I am afraid that if you see my face, it will be THAT that you will love and not me.' I understand, believe me. I know what that feels like.

He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to feel the wetness of grief's tears on your face.

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

the way life will when we learn what to hold, what to let go

Bisexuality means to me that I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?

The other kids ignored me, and that hurt more than I cared to admit. Before long, I'd decided they had nothing on me. I could play their game. I could be happy being invisible.

Besides, not having any friends in my new school was a hundred times better than dealing with my burning sense of guilt -- guilt that I loved Punky with all my heart and yet felt ashamed of him for the first time in my life.

I could understand ignorance, but I could not accept its glorification, still less its right to rule.

If I know from the start that I'm going to be alone, I'm not lonely. It doesn't bother me.

Come on! What's so precious about a monster?

Come on! What's so precious about a monster?" - Tomie, "Basement

A person doesn't mourn forever.

Sadness at being caught, at the incontrovertibe knowledge that she will never forgive you.

Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.

If you ask me I don't think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That's enough.

if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.

You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who's trying to get thin.

what a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are)-...

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

I used to think those were the barrio rules, Latinos and blacks in, whites out —a place we down cats weren't supposed to go. But love teaches you. Clears your head of any rules.