Quotes About Acceptance

Love doesn't always come in convenient packages.

When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

Well, I'm so sorry that I can't be the right kind of monster for you, Bella.

Life sucks, and then you die...

his dick, for example, was just that. It wasn't odd or typical. It just was, by god. And isn't that nice?

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.

Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.

I believe there is an explanation for everything - although we shall never know the explanation for everything. Not everything in this world can be understood by us, nor should it be. It is not necessary.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.

The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

If you worship a God who is out to get you, you will never be free … free to cuss and spit, free to move to joyous acceptance, and free to get on with your life.

Perfectionism will make you sour, mean, and judgmental, and it will rob you of the freedom Jesus died to give you.

Help me to believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful it may be.

We're all a bit of a dick. It's the human condition. Nothing to be afraid of.

If I had it to do all over again . . . I wouldn't change a thing.'. . . the final expression of narcissism, the last gesture of self-congratulation.

And there's the rub. He figures he has worked long and hard, and suffered much to become the asshole he is by now, and, since these solutions work for him after a lifetime of floundering grief, he is not about to change. He doesn't feel misunderstood, so much as non-understood.

As we live out of such a mind, we become generous, with no sense of tolerance. We become patient, with no sense of putting up with anything. We become compassionate, with no sense of separation. And we become wise, with no sense of having to straighten anyone out.

When we latch on to an identity, it is easy to take offense. But we offend ourselves. We lock ourselves into very rigid ways of seeing and thinking and feeling and reacting. It doesn't have to be this way. The fact is, I'm not anything in particular. Nor are you. Nor is anyone.

I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive.

Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on--not on our own terms, but on the world's.

It was a lesson I had taken most of my life to learn. Sometimes you have to let things go.

Unless you're a hairdresser, you can't have a ponytail and call yourself Kenny when you're forty. Not in Michigan, anyway.

stop heaping your own definition of love on men and recognize that men love differently.

no matter the flaws you find when you look at yourself in the mirror, somewhere on God's earth, you are really "doing it" for someone - someone out there is attracted to you.