Quotes About Acceptance

Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.

Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. We don't have much truth to express unless we have gone into those rooms and closets and woods and abysses that we were told not go in to. When we have gone in and looked around for a long while, just breathing and finally taking it in -- then we will be able to speak in our own voice and to stay in the present moment. And that moment is home.

Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out and say, We're at a wedding! Have some cake! You need to create a world into which we can enter, a world where we can see this.

When people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.

How much, if at all, do we let go of grief, even as we proclaim the need to leave it in the past?

If I could change a single thing about my life,' she said gently, 'I would not have been so unhappy when I was young.

For each of us, he understood, is born into our own time and eventually the things we held as the center of our world, dearly, unforgivingly, must fade.

I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.

It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.

You know when I need to die? When I'm done living. When I can't walk, can't eat, can't see, when I'm a crotchety old bastard, mad at the world. Then I can die.

As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

I can't open both arms and catch falling towers, catch trees, catch helpless oceans or drowning things. I hold out empty arms because you refuse to fall into them. Every bit of you inside won't come out, which is the way of a heart hatching. This stubornness insists I love you while I hold no act of God responsible.

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.

I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.

I warmed both hands before the fire of Life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Toleration is in itself the essence of Christianity, and the very point which the founder of it most peculiarly enjoined.

To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.

Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful.