Quotes About Acceptance

Everything terrible is something that needs our love. - Rilke (231)

the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)

Maybe learning to be human was about learning to live in pain, not trying to figure out how to live pain-free. (156)

Let yourself feel the pain you've been avoiding, and you will become powerful in equal measure.

in the end it was better to have the love of a confessed killer, than to have no love at all, especially when you were just twelve years old.

As I let go of the past, the past let go of me.

I beg you to understand and accept that no matter what name, I am what I am.

Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers sew shreds together and see beauty in the multiplicity of patches.

I am filled with a certain kind of doubt about my role in the world. But that does not stop me from participating in the world. It only keeps me from expecting something from the world. It

I wish I was not so determined to feel secure about everything. I want everything to be comfortable and in reality nothing ever is.

Suzy said my hair looks like there are dead animals living in it. At least they're dead.

She introduced herself to me as Ray's wife. I was only mildly surprised to realize that Ray had this pleasant-looking matron for a partner, a little glassy-eyed, tagged by forty years of marriage like a dead deer on a car roof.

Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no 'normal' person would do.

My feeling is that sanity is actually a pretence, a way we learn to behave. We keep this pretence up because we don't want to be rejected by other people—and being classified insane is to be shut out of the group in a very complete way.

A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them—and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.

You know, life's a funny thing. Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

You can't always get what you want But if you try sometimes, Well, You just might find you get what you need.

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.

I don't regret nuthin...

Marvin, you're here now," Vale said. He stood up, his knees popping. "The food sucks. They have severed animal heads in the bar. I don't know if you know that." His cigarette sparked against the gravel and he ratcheted open my walker in front of me. "But you're among friends, okay, and you're still walking upright and taking solids. You're winning. Anything beyond that is thinking too far ahead

The indomitable Cox may have been the only member of the crew to remain calm—"it being a certain truth that those who are born to be hang'd shall never be drown'd," as he explained.

Even in high school, I had friends that I didn't know were gay until years later. I'd find out on Facebook or something and be like, 'Oh, that explains some things ' or 'Wow, no wonder they were so cool.'

When I meet gay fans out and about, they're so great to talk to - and I'm big on hugging, because I'm from the Midwest. They're just so energetic and loving. I'm proud to have those fans, and their support means a lot to me. I don't want just girls coming to my movies I want guys to come, too!