Quotes About Acceptance

Despite myself I was beginning to get used to Isabella's company, to her jibes and to the light she had brought into that house. If things continued this way, my worst fears were going to come true and we'd end up being friends.

Siempre he envidiado la capacidad de olvidar que tienen algunas personas para las cuales el pasado es como una muda de temporada o unos zapatos viejos a los que basta condenar en el fondo de un armario para que sean incapaces de rehacer los pasos perdidos.

En el colegio dicen que soy un poco raro [...] -Pues es una suerte. Empiece a preocuparse el día que le digan que es usted normal.

El amor es como el embutido: hay lomo embuchado y hay mortadela. Todo tiene su lugar y función. Carax

Usted no cree que nadie la pueda querer porque no se quiere a sí misma y piensa que nunca nadie la ha querido. Y que no se lo perdona al mundo.

alba, el cansancio y la dispersión me ayudaron a localizar de nuevo mi proverbial egoísmo y no tardé en convencerme de que lo óptimo era dejar correr las aguas y, con el tiempo, el río se llevaría la sangre.

Te quiero - dije - Ya lo sé. Nos quedamos allí cogidos de la mano, viendo cómo un alud apabullante de nubarrones carmesíes encapotaba los cielos, y lloré, sintiéndome feliz al fin.

As the months went by, I learned to confuse routine with normality.

Wariatem jest ten, kto ma si? za ca?kowicie normalnego, a za nienormalnych uwa?a ca?? reszt?.

She's not evil. Calling all demons evil is like calling all Muslims terrorists. It's racist." Bill holds up his hands, "Oh, well in that case I apologize. She can stay.

That's your problem. You try to be like everyone else. Everyone is unique here. They won't like you unless you be your own person.

I wish she was more like a normal girl, but I'd rather be with her and deal with her eccentricities than never see her again.

Facts are what facts are. Either you can live with them or you can't.

May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.

I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs...well, so be it.

It's a lot easier to like people when they can't make life miserable for you anymore.

The whole point of my gender transition was to free myself up. If something feels good, I'm not going to stop doing it because it doesn't fit someone else's notion of what a man is. -David Harrison

Basing your identity on sexuality is like building a house on a foundation of pudding. - D. Travers Scott

Gay male and lesbian culture is obsessed with purity of identity as the only basis for figuring out who you can trust or dance with. -Pat Califia

I am not at peace.' Daisy Goodwill's final (unspoken) words.

It occurs to me that there are some happenings for which the proper response is not comprehension at all, but amazement and acceptance.

It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell upon them. —playwright Lillian Hellman

From Cherish Tomorrow ... "I want you," she said softly. His jaw became rigid with disapproval. "I'm too damned old for you." "You're perfect." She touched the hardness of one cheek with loving fingers. "You're too young for me!" She shrugged. "I'll get older."

The most crippling part of my personality is that as much as I want to know something, I can't bear admitting I'm ignorant. It's as if I think I should have been born knowing and understanding all. As if when I say out loud, what are you talking about? the world will point and jeer.