Quotes About Acceptance

Oh, yes," said Kate with a laugh. "When I was seven I ran away from the orphanage to join the circus. They brought me back, but I just ran away again, and I kept running away every time they brought me back. Eventually it was agreed that I could join the circus and save everybody a lot of trouble. So that's what I've been doing the past few years. It's been great fun, too

You were right, Mr. Benedict," Kate said from the back of the station wagon. "Things are much more pleasant when you stop being angry." -Kate Wetherall

Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?

Everything is as it should be.

You know what they say: You can't teach a gay dog straight tricks.

You don't want to look back at your years with regrets. Regrets have no place in your memory jar.

With God, it's possible to be content wherever we are, with whatever we have.

Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.

Tips for Southern Visitors, No. 5 People will be quite kind to you when they realise you are from the South, because you can't help it.

Daddy loves you, but he smacks you, and he can shout at you and smash things, but Daddy still loves you. So when you get into a relationship with someone who does all of that, why would it be unusual?

would be more open to understanding that all fights were not to be won but sometimes merely a lesson to be learned.

Learn to accept and embrace your flaws, you may not be perfect, but you are unique.

The past is the past, you cannot go back and change it. The future is bright, but tomorrow is not promised. All you have is the present, so enjoy it.

You only live once, so enjoy life as it comes to you. Whether good or bad, accept each moment for what it is. Everything happens for a reason. You may not fully see the logics behind certain presently, but you will eventually. Focus on the things that you can control. Some things may not be a part of your plan, but it's a part of God's plan.

Nonmonogamous folks recognize that during a lifetime you can and will be attracted to other people even if you are in a wonderful, fulfilling relationship; they make room in their relationship for these attractions rather than allow them to cause anxiety, jealousy, and unreasonable expectations.

Sex-positive feminism embraces the entire range of human sexuality and is based on the idea that sexual freedom is an essential component of women's freedom. - Madison Young

It is a relationship that is flexible enough to allow for change and that is constantly being renegotiated in the light of changing needs, consensus in decision-making, acceptance and encouragement of individual growth, and openness to new possibilities for growth.

Vergere taught me to embrace my pain by surrendering to it. I made that pain a part of me--something I would never fight or deny. You have to do the same thing with your fear, Uncle Luke. Then it will have no power over you." - Jacen

The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay.

Sometimes you can't be who you want

But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

She disciplined her memory to give up counting her losses. She gave her suffering one name: exile.

We learn we cannot form deep roots because we do not have the right to place or citizenship, and because we do not have citizenship to a place we do not have the right to a voice. We are alienated from our own past and from the future of the countries we live in. Where we are is the best we can hope for. We learn to be grateful.

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.