Quotes About Acceptance

A painful observation is almost always a truthful one. You are having growing pains, My son. It's all right.

Now for My Will to be yours, you would have to do the same. First, you would have to know it. Second, you would have to accept it. Third, you would have to praise it. Fourth, you would have to love it. Finally, you would have to call it your own.

You have created a society in which it is very not okay to want to die—very not okay to be very okay with death.

Vanligvis når livet ser ut til å falle fra hverandre, faller det egentlig på plass.

All your life you have spent convincing yourself that you are bad. Not only that you are bad, but that the things you want are bad. Sex is bad, money is bad, joy is bad, power is bad, having a lot is bad—a lot of anything. Some of your religions have even got you believing that dancing is bad, music is bad, celebrating life is bad. Soon you'll agree that smiling is bad, laughing is bad, loving is bad.

Nothing makes God unhappy. You cannot believe this because it would require you to believe in a God without need or judgment, and you cannot imagine such a God.

there is great healing in acknowledging "mine is not a better way, mine is merely another way.

Noelle: But I look like a freak now. Craig: I told you, Noelle, everybody has problems. Some people just hide their crap better than others. But people aren't going to look at you and run away. They're going to look at you and think that they can talk to you, and that you'll understand, and that you're brave, and that you're strong. And you are. You're brave and strong. p.366-367

Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.

I like you a lot. Because you're funny and smart and because you seem to like me. I know that's not a good reason, but I can't help it; if a girl likes me I tend to like her back [...] I like you for all this stuff but I also kind of like you for the cuts on your face—

I'm going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.

I love you," I mumble. "Even though I'm a teenager and I'm not supposed to." "I love you too," Dad says. "Even though … eh . . . No. I don't have any jokes about it. I just do.

Yeah, and she's really screwed up, as screwed up as me, but I don't look at that as an insult. I look at that as a chance to connect.

I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.

Someday someone is going to find this pelvis sexy or I'll never have children.

You have a chemical imbalance, that is all. If you were a diabetic, would you be ashamed

They take away your options and all you can do is live, and it's just like Humble said: I'm not afraid of dying; I'm afraid of living. I was afraid before, but I'm afraid even more now that I'm a public joke.

People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and…you know…ready to explode.

People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it

I mean everybody's messed up." "What's your point?" "We wear our problems differently.

Life can't be cured, it can be managed.

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

Life is not cured. Life is managed.

If the world is something you accept rather than interpret, then you're susceptible to the influence of charismatic idiots.