Quotes About Acceptance

Deixe a raiva seguir seu curso ou ela pode consumir você.

My darling," she said at last, "are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?" "I don't mind at all," I said. "It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you." Roald Dahl, The Witches

Let him alone," said Merlin. "Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come and easy-go." T. H. White, The Sword in the Stone

Anything invented before you were eighteen was there all along. Anything invented before you're thirty is exciting and will change the world forever. Anything invented after that is an abomination and should be banned.

The way out of a crisis was to deal with it as it was, not as you wished it were.

There are some factors you can control, and some you can't. Wishing things were different won't make them different.

it turned out she just made good money working for a law firm that did a lot of western business and didn't mind having a trans girl for a paralegal.

Then he notices, he's a he again. Why not. Gender is just a slider.

we are only human, a condition of perpetual uncertainty and failure.

How deeply do any of us know our own selves? Ask yourself. We hold a picture of how we wish to be and hope it goes forever unchallenged. Passing through life never pursuing aspects of our natures with which we'd rather not reckon. Dying strangers to ourselves.

I figured some people have edges that don't allow them to slot neatly into the holes society expects them to fit into, that was all.

As far as I was concerned, there was nothing wrong with being an odd duck. I figured some people have edges that don't allow them to slot into the holes society expects them to fit into, that was all.

Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.

When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.

One can never satisfy a closed mind

Those who look down on other Christians because they lack a particular gift or experience, or those who despise a particular gift and look down on Christians who have it, are not demonstrating spiritual maturity.

You cannot fight time itself, slay the minutes and hours with your blade, wipe the bleeding seconds on your shirt. Time cannot be fought.

Sometimes time cannot tick backwards. Sometimes you cannot put a dragon back in a forest, nor a witch back in a tree-trunk, nor the breath back into a friend when all the breath has gone.

You can Cheat a Dragon's Curse. You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.

You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.

You cannot fight Time itself, slay the minutes and the hours with your blade, nor wipe the bleeding seconds on your shirt. Time cannot be fought.

Great Hero though you are, you cannot make the moving hand of time tick backward. None of us can do that

The characters were not unknown because they were illegal or didn't have the documents but because people didn't want to know them.

We're the unknown Americans, the ones no one even wants to know, because they've been told they're supposed to be scared of us and because maybe if they did take the time to get to know us, they might realize that we're not that bad, maybe even that we're a lot like them. And who would they hate then?