Quotes About Acceptance

Let yourself become that space that welcomes any experience without judgement.

With a loving mind, cherish more than a child The hostile gods and demons of apparent existence, And tenderly surround yourself with them. — Machig Labdrön (1055–1145)

Hold it lightly.

Death and irrelevance are coming to all of us.

A 2013 study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that two-thirds of children who say they believe they were born the wrong gender change their minds and come to accept their biological sex. Another study, by clinical psychologist Devita Singh, found that without adult intervention, 88 percent of kids ultimately evolve out of gender confusion

No one has it all figured out, especially not the people who are acting like they do and judging you because of it. Pretending to be something you aren't because you're trying to please a bunch of judgmental hypocrites and shitheads is not the way to be happy. Living the life you want to live is. It really is that simple.

He sees the scar over his eye. It will fade eventually, but it will never disappear. It will never be as good as new. Maybe that's okay. Maybe being good as new is overrated.

Tell me why you don't sleep. I didn't say goodbye. I knew what was happening, but I didn't say goodbye. I didn't even try to.

Just so you know," Rebecca says, staring at nothing. "The confusion doesn't go away. But that doesn't have to be a bad thing. You just have to figure out how to take that confusion, and turn it into something beautiful.

Good and evil keep happening in this world. It just takes a little longer for us to take the bad in our stride. And just when we think we've come to terms with bad, we're shocked to be haunted by that one query whose answer is ever as elusive - why on earth did it have to happen to me ?

You're right," she said. "All my life I have desperately wanted an ugly necklace." "Hey," Chameleon protested, as Queen Scarlet gave a shout of laughter.

As each of them voted for her, Sunny felt as though her own scales might turn pink.

For most of her life, Cricket's best friends were books. Books accepted you the way you were and shared all their secrets with you. Books never told you to stop asking questions or accused you of being nosy and annoying. Books never said, "Cricket, you don't need to know that, mind your own business.

I heard you weren't a SkyWing, Glory, but that doesn't bother me. SkyWings are overrated,

Forget the stupid prophecy. This is the destiny I was supposed to have.

You can do and say everything exactly the same as everyone else, but if there's one thing different about you, that's all they care about." "I assume so," Peril said. "I've never actually tried acting like other dragons." "Well, it doesn't work," he said. Something was glowing in his eyes, an old, old anger. "Trust me. You still end up banished from your own home.

Clay cared about his real brothers and sisters, too, although he'd only just met them. He felt instinctively like they were extensions of his own claws and wings. This was the family he'd always wanted.

I figured maybe I'd start by making friends with some other tribes first and gradually work my way back around to the NightWings, but you're hardly a NightWing at all, so that's OK, then." Moon winced. "Hardly a NightWing at all" was essentially what she'd been hearing in the NightWings' thoughts about her for months. It was a little brutal to hear someone just say it out loud.

Moon, this is Tamarin. Tamarin, Moon is our new best friend. She's super funny. Moon, can Tamarin touch your face?

It's time to prove that you really do belong in this prophecy.

It doesn't work to throw tribes together and just hope they'll get along, because they won't — they can't. Dragons don't work that way, no matter what tribe they're from.

She's a RainWing," he hissed. "She'd laugh at me just as much as any of her tribe, if she'd met me before I found my power.

Well, I sort of do, now that we have Blue.

No one had made fun of his odd talons in years, not since his first month in the wingery. He'd always worked hard to prove