Quotes About Acceptance

I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.

Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

Make me into anything, but just love me.

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.

I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content,I say deliver me from Swedish furniture, I say deliver me from clever arts, I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth,I say you have to give up! I say evolve, and let the chips fall where they may!

Sometimes your best way to deal with shit is not to hold yourself as such a precious little prize.

You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!

You can't fool people into loving you.

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.

I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.

Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.

No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.

To stand here and try to fix her life is just a big waste of time. People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.

You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.