Quotes About Acceptance

I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me.

Antes, riam de mim, desprezando-me por minha ignorância e estupidez; agora, eles me odiavam por meu conhecimento e compreensão.

Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say? . . .

And so it went. Most of them felt the way Joe and Frank and Gimpy did. It had been all right as long they could laugh at me and appear clever at my expense, but now they were feeling inferior to the moron. I began to see that by my astonishing growth I had made them shrink and emphasized their inadequacies. I had betrayed them, and they hated me for it.

It doesn't mean - she shrugged. It just is - like a poem.

Its getting chilly out but I still put flowers on Algernons grave.

Im mixd up but Miss Kinnian says dont worry spelling is not suppose to make sence.

Ce ciudat este faptul c? niÈ™te oameni cu sentimente oneste de sensibilitate, care nu s-ar lua niciodat? de un om n?scut f?r? mâini, picioare sau ochi, nu se dau înapoi de la maltratarea unui om slab de minte.. Chiar È™i un om slab de minte vrea s? fie asemeni celorlalÈ›i oameni. Un copil mic poate s? nu È™tie cum s? se hr?neasc? singur sau ce s? m?nânce, dar È™tie c?-i este foame..

still hear her. But perhaps I had been released. Maybe the fear and nausea was no longer a sea to drown in, but only a pool of water reflecting the past alongside the now. Was I free?

Why is it so important for me to say to her: "Mom, look at me. I'm not retarded any more. I'm normal. Better than normal. I'm a genius?

I wasn't his son. That was another Charlie. Intelligence and knowledge had changed me, and he would resent me---as the others from the bakery resented me---because my growth diminished him.

Its easy to have frends if you let pepul laff at you. Im going to have lots of frends where I go. PPS. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the back yard.

I pray God it is the answer I want, but if not I will accept any answer at all and try to be grateful for what I had.

It doesn't mean, she shrugged. It just is - like a poem.

Its easy to have frends if you let pepul laff at you. Im going to have lots of frends where I go.

As Abhinavagupta says, "In Tantrism, nothing is advised, nothing is forbidden.

Lalla, exuberant, convinced her guru, the Siddha Shrikantha, to give her the teachings by defecating on an image of Shiva that was in the guru's house. When Shrikantha asked her the reason for this act, Lalla replied: "If Shiva is everywhere, he is also in the dirt of the dumping grounds where I usually go. If every place is sacred, why bother choosing?

by the slow and gentle emergence of objectless love, which calmly waits for us to stop pursuing the unattainable.

Do you mean that those who are considered masters do not have total mastery? They don't have it because they aren't looking for it. They accept reality, they go with life, they receive lessons from life and understand them often.

You must absolutely and forever relinquish the idea that you know who should live and who should die on this planet.

A battered wife will invest all her feelings of self-worth in her battering husband. She has totally accepted her husband's valuation of her, and this is why she stays: She hopes to redeem herself in her husband's eyes—and therefore in her own.

I guess the message in the songs is that is shouldn't matter if someone moves differently, or looks differently, or talks differently. Is biotic differently. What matters is that we're all thinking beings, and if we are thinking beings we ought to be able to find common ground somewhere.

I'm better off without the armor, because no matter how much I fortify it, no matter how well oiled the plates are, and no matter how tightly I weave the chain links, there's no way it can really protect me. An arrow can always slip through; a swung club could always bruise. And that's okay, really, because it is as much a part of my job to feel as it is to make others feel.

You've presented a reality that not everyone has chosen to accept.