Quotes About Acceptance

I think that if I could give a name to what I feel it would go away. Find the word that describes the feeling and say it over and over until it's merely a sound.

I was invited to go to a mental hospital. And you know, you don't want to be rude, so you go.

It seems like I want them to like me for my mind, anyway," she said, "so why not let them go straight for it? Why get them to like my legs? It doesn't seem like that's me. I feel like what I look like is government issue, it's pretty much out of my hands. But I invent the stuff I say. That's me.

ultimately you could say that I don't have a problem with drugs so much as I have a problem with sobriety.

I have to start by telling you that my entire existence could be summed up in one phrase. And that is: If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.)

We all live with our losses. We don't want to, but we can

Hate is a useless emotion.

What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.

Then he smiles at me and my heart starts beating harder, which I'm ashamed to admit, but it's true. Hearts betray you like that. This is why it's perfectly acceptable to be cardiophobic, afraid of hearts.

Do you like me? You know, like me like me?" I cringe the moment I ask and cover my face with my hands. The smell of blood and trail dirt wafts into my nose. Something sinks inside me. What is it? Oh, I know, any dignity I could possibly have left.

Sometimes that whys aren't knowable, so you just have to ignore the whys, and just focus on what is and move on.

Know that I love you, that I always will love you no matter what choices you make, what paths you have chosen, and what paths you choose in the future.

You're perfect,aren't you?" "I am a werewolf," he says between bites. He bends his head. "That just gives you a totally good excuse for your pathetic temper." He wiggles his eyebrows. "True.

Fear makes us stronger, puts us on our toes. We've got to embrace it.

A part of me does not want to think that I always knew something was wrong.=. This is probably the same part that didn't look at the evidence that was right before my eyes, and even though I know this, it does not stop me from defending the fairy tale.

What feels best is how I no longer hurt.

Sometimes things aren't logical. Sometimes things don't follow timetables.

So, I'm a bear," she explains, eyeing us all. "Wait? Is Issie something?" "Nope," Issie pouts. "All human. All the time." "The coolest human ever," Devyn says, reaching down and ruffling her hair.

Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose ourselves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.

Booker T. once said, "I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Winning is overrated, because winning and losing are both your acceptance of being rated.

I was astonished at what I could do. And I wondered what else I could do. Maybe I would always wear the heavy boots of anxiety and the prickly coat of worry, but maybe -- even still -- I could just be a person who belongs in the world, even if it's hard.

Rug muncher!