Quotes About Acceptance

Everything ends. The natural order of things is immutable. Seed, flower, fruit, decline, death, decay. Seed. Each stage has its own drama and its own particular beauty. If you can see it, you can accept it. The parts are graceful, and so is the whole.

My new life was marking me. It was happening so quickly. There were intermittent spells of resistance, during which I'd pluck and moisturize and exfoliate, and then there was a period of grieving for my old self, who seemed to be disappearing toward the horizon, and then I relaxed into it.

This humble wish seemed impossible. It was so different from the life I was living, and no one in my circle had those things, or wanted them, or would admit it if they did. I thought I could acknowledge the ache and learn to live with it, the way you live with the pain that lingers long after you've broken a bone, the kind that foretells a shift in the weather.

vulnerability is necessary if you hope to find some grace.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

The only person your anger hurts is you. Let it go. Accept it. Move on.

Abandoning perfectionism is such a relief for us, and them.

Transparency allows your children to see you exactly as you are, and promotes the deepest kind of connection. It is also a show of true self-confidence and self-love that you accept yourself as you are, in all of your humanness.

It is the mess that readers love. The fact that sometimes the people who love us the most aren't people we're related to, but people who join our family later. The book acknowledges how difficult family relationship are, and this fuss just proves it.

Kueller shook his head. "You don't hate Skywalker. You hate the way he makes you feel. You hate yourself, Brakiss. You hate what you've become.

Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.

The Republican position is now to oppose even studying climate change as well as any and all proposals to reduce carbon emissions. Rational people may disagree about how governments might minimize or prepare for the effects of global warming. You are entitled to your own opinion. But refusing to accept its reality is a new and unacceptable posture. You are not entitled to your own facts.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.

I'm so happy 'cause today I've found my friends....They're in my head. I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you.

I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not' Could be a summary of my book, 'Guilt Trip

I lie in the soil and fertilize mushrooms Leaking out gas fumes are made into perfume You can't fire me because I quit Throw me in the fire and I won't throw a fit

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.

Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

Erst habe ich gemerkt, wie das Leben ist. Und dann habe ich verstanden, warum es so ist, und dann habe ich begriffen, warum es nicht anders sein kann. Und doch möchte ich, daß es anders wird.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.