Quotes About Acceptance

All this time, Lev never realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all-forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world. By someone who once despised him. Someone like Miracolina.

It was Hayden who actually came up with the therm Whollies because Unwind and AWOL were negative labels put on them by the world.

What must it have been like to believe in something greater than oneself? To accept imperfection and look to a rising vision of all we could never be? It must have been comforting.

I feel bad for you," Citra said. "Even when you're food shopping, death is hiding right behind the milk.

My real name is Shawn Dobson. Will you call me that, Rowan? Will you call me by my real name?

I feel bad for you, said Citra. Even when you're food shopping, death is hiding right behind death. It never hides, the scythe told them with a world-weariness that was hard to describe. Nor does it sleep. You'll learn that soon enough.

Let the dead be dead," agreed Rowan.

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.

Besides, eventually even the most defiant of unsavories will settle. I have noticed a trend that by the time most of them turn a few corners, they relax into a kinder, gentler sort of defiance. Bit by bit, they come to appreciate inner peace. Which is as it should be. In time, all storms settle to a pleasant breeze.

Why did it all have to go so wrong? the heavy man wailed. She knelt down to him and put a hand on his shoulder. Maybe it needed to go wrong, she said softly, to bring you to this moment.

She is unaware of Hell and Purgatory And when the time comes for her to enter The black Night, she will look into the face of Death As a new-born child,—without hatred or remorse.

Take it easy, Sadness. Settle down.

Tout homme qui n'accepte pas les conditions de la vie, vend son âme.

Be wise, Oh my sadness, be calmer.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

We don't even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

Life's as kind as you let it be.

I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.

If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another

Learn, he says, that there will be hours, days and months ahead of feeling absolutely terrible and nothing can change that; neither new girlfriends, health professionals, changes of diet, dope, humility, or God.

animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along

love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.