Quotes About Acceptance

I guess once you start parting with all the things you think hold your life together, it's hard to stop—and then you find out your life holds together all by itself.

All children in Madagascar were raised genderless and forbidden to choose a gender until reaching adulthood. Even then, many didn't choose a single state of being. Some, like Jerico, found fluidity to be their nature. "I feel like a woman beneath the sun and the stars. I feel like a man under the cover of clouds," Jerico had explained to the crew when assuming command. "A simple glance at the skies will let you know how to address me at any given time.

Aquilo que vem não pode ser evitado.

As Ariadne led him to the massage tent, Rowan thought, In eight months I am going to die. So perhaps he could allow himself a little indulgence on the way.

You make errors all the time... as does every other human being who has ever lived. Error is an intrinsic part of the human condition.

In a perfect world mothers would all want their babies, and strangers would open up their homes to the unloved.

I choose to see the positive in this. How wonderful it is that I have now been allowed to experience wrath and fury! It makes me more complete, does it not?

Lorsqu'un événement grave se produit, il y a comme un temps de réaction. Ce n'est ni du déni ni de la surprise, plutôt une sorte de chute libre mentale. On s'imprègne de la nouvelle... et lorsqu'on se décide enfin à bouger, la fenêtre d'action s'est déjà refermée. — Alyssa

When faced with the end of all things, it was much easier to nibble at it than take it in large, indigestible bites.

It's stupid to die because of a turd growing on your face." Connor has to smile. "Truer words were never spoken.

Anastasia felt inadequate among the greats, and yet they parted to make sure she was in the midst of them, as an equal.

We are imperfect beings, Munira said, How could we ever fit in a perfect world?

And he will love them unconditionally . . . if he can just get past the girls he chose to be their mothers.

Guilt is the idiot cousin of remorse.

Breakfast was breakfast. How dare it be?

Tomorrow is going to have to take care of itself for a while. Yesterday too.

But why waste time lamenting the paths that had closed? Best to embrace the one path that remained.

The kids who knew them would talk about how terrible it was, and gripe about it for a day or two, and then it became old news. Unwinds didn't go out with a bang —they didn't even go out with a whimper. They went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.

You'll find your own path. It may not bring you redemption, it might not even bring you peace, but it will keep you from despising yourself.

That's what you are now. TROUBLE in caps-lock. Then she puts her cane down, and softens a bit. "That's not your fault, though. You didn't ask to be born, and you didn't ask to be unwound, either.

Here, here, seconded Scythe Rand. You can come to my room and break my neck any time.

I've been having lots of wrong thoughts, Lev tells Pastor Dan. There are no wrong thoughts, only thoughts that need to be worked through.

You Unwinds are all the same. You think that because no one loves you, then you can't love anyone.

You must find us binary people strange and confusing." "I did when I was younger. I never met someone born to a single gender until I was well into my teens. But I've come to accept, and even appreciate, your quirky rigidity.