Quotes About Acceptance

Why couldn't we let each other alone? " she asked in a low voice. "We fell in love because we were so different. Then all we did was twist and pull at each other, trying to make changes that couldn't be made—""I know. Why should anyone do that? Why is it that we can't think of any higher destiny for the people we love than that they become just like ourselves?

My philosophy when it came to pets was much like that of having children: You got what you got, and you loved them unconditionally regardless of whatever their personalities or flaws turned out to be.

Love is love, whether it goes on two legs or four.

Yes, he even romped like a normal kitten, despite his eyelessness. In short, he was eminently lovable … at least by all standards except the one with which most humans preoccupied themselves: his appearance. Finally,

You don't have to enjoy life, you simply have to do the best you can at it. Because every day you wake up and see yourself in the mirror, and that reflection is something you can never get away from. Not ever.

I don't think it ever ocurred to me to aim for happyness, though. I mean, do you do that? No, just try to get trough with as little pain as possible, that's the way ...

Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love. My daughters and sons have put me away with marbles and dolls, Are gone from the house. My husband and lovers are pleasant or somewhat polite And night is night.

To say yes is to die A lot or a little.

Cognitive therapists focus on getting patients to see the glass as half-full rather than half-empty. Being positive has become rather a fetish. A more radical tactic would be to abolish the need for evaluation and just accept the glass as it is, whether it be cracked or brimming.

I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.

Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.

there's no cure for love, when it hits you make up your mind, to live with it!

El?ttem van az apám – mondta. – Elmélyülten, élvezettel tudta lemetélni a körmeit a lábáról, aztán mégis meghalt. – Ez hogy jön ide? – kérdezte Aszperger idegesen. – Nem tudom – felelte Fiszer. – De nem tébolyító? Az embernek csak n?, csak n? a körme, és nem tehet róla!

He who does not care for Heaven but is contented where he is, is already in Heaven.

He is trapped underground, suddenly and unexpectedly close to death, but still in control of his fate. "At that moment I put death in my head and decided I would live with it," he says later.

I think that sometimes the only thing that can make you laugh is accepting the idea that there's no way out.

Me too, I make do, I anoint what cannot be fixed.

We've been turned away from our bodies, shamefully taught to ignore them, to strike them with that stupid sexual modesty; we've been victims of the old fool's game: each one will love the other sex. I'll give you your body and you'll give me mine.

Beauty will no longer be forbidden.

And I want to become a woman I can love. I want to meet women who love themselves, who are alive, who are not debased, overshadowed, wiped out.

Cats are people, and the sooner the world accepts that fact, the better off the world will be.

In a religious community, the village atheist keeps his doubts to himself.

People have to learn to live with newly-discovered facts; if they don't, they die of them.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.