Quotes About Acceptance

You can change everything about yourself - your name, your home, your skin color, your gender, even your parents, your private history - but you can't change the time you were born in, or what it is you will have to live through.

I walked round the block thinking I'd think about it, but my legs were heading home, and sometimes you have to accept that your heart knows what to do.

But as I try and understand how life works--and why some people cope better than others with adversity--I come back to something to do with saying yes to life, which is love of life, however inadequate, and love for the self, however found. Not in the me-first way that is the opposite of life and love, but with a salmon-like determination to swim upstream, however choppy upstream is, because this is your stream...

When my mother heard about this, she was furious, and she crossed Nellie off her prayer list. My dad put her on his instead, so she didn't miss out.

Only in death may we be reunited with those we have lost. For myself, I do not seek death but neither do I fear that which will bring me peace.

Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise.

Didn't they like you? Didn't they, like you, need a heart that was a book with no last page? Turn the leaves.

Melanie,' I plucked up courage to ask at last, 'why do you have such a funny name?' She blushed. 'When I was born I looked like a melon.' 'Don't worry,' I reassured her, 'you don't any more.

Time was my Medusa. Time was turning me to stone.

Atlas, Atlas, Atlas. It's in my name, I should have known. My name is Atlas – it means 'the long suffering one'.

You act out what it feels like to be the one who doesn't belong. And you act it out by trying to do to others what has been done to you. It is impossible to believe that anyone loves you for yourself.

It is no use trying to assume again the state of innocence and acceptance of the animal or the child. This time it has to be conscious. To circle about in such gladness as his, is the effort of a whole lifetime.

Those old sayings about Give It Time, and Time is a Healer depend on just whose time it is.

Everyone has a demon as you so rightly observed [...] but not everyone knows this, and not everyone knows how to make use of it. [...] We're [the demons] here to keep you in one piece, if you ignore us, you're quite likely to end up in two pieces, or lots of pieces, it's all part of the paradox.

I reassured myself as best I could. The minister was a man, but he wore a skirt, so that made him special. There must be others, but were there enough? That was the worry. There were a lot of women, and most of them got married. If they couldn't marry each other, and I didn't think they could, because of having babies, some of them would inevitably have to marry beasts.

Until we learn to stop dying Tom, we have to live with the consequences. There's no room for the dead unless you treat them as ornamental.

I have found that I am not a space where people want to live. At least not without decorating first.

Here I am. Not leaving any more. Home.

Die Wahrheit aber ist, dieses Wäre ist immer nur eine Erfindung. Ich kann nur die Entscheidungen treffen, die ich treffe, warum sich also quälen mit dem, was gewesen wäre, wenn ich doch nur bewältigen kann, was war? Die Wäre-Inseln sind für den Menschen unbewohnbar.

The English are serial racists--one group gets accepted, another group becomes the scapegoat.

I'm living on my memories like a cheap has-been.

To lose someone you love Is to alter your life forever... The pain stops, there are new people, But the gap never closes... This hole in your hear is the shape of the one you lost- No one else can fit it.

Everyone knows a homosexual is no closer to being a woman than a rhinoceros.

The future is intact, still unredeemed, but the past is irredeemable. She is not who she thought she was.