Quotes About Acceptance

para mim, o amor por uma pessoa é o respeito pelos mesmos sentimentos individuais - o respeito à privacidade e a aceitação dos defeitos.

These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don't give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We're making a big deal out of things we shouldn't be making a deal out of. They go on and on with all this bullshit about 'sanctity' — don't give me that sanctity crap! Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want.

Every single time you set up a comparison between yourself and someone else, you lose, no one wins.

We're too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.

No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.

We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.

A man accepts the thankless burden of responsibility. We women do not. To us, life is a game we play one day at a time.

If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.

The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.

Cambridge will probably never get round to formally approving homosexuality, but the type of homosexual involved perhaps prefers a blind eye

But the time has already arrived when such a joke does not register as funny. What have we gained, except a classroom in which no one need feel excluded?

Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheels Drive you crazy.

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.

We still got roaches on the bed, walls, and floors, but Troy ain't even crying 'bout them no more. He probably too used to them by now.

The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce.

In olden days, a glimpse of stockingWas looked on as something shocking,But now, God knows,Anything goes.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today....

It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.

I've known perfectly well, for a long time, that I have an irrational heart. But knowing it doesn't stop me in the least.

When are a 'lady on your own,' in other words the landlords' abomination, outcast and terror all rolled into one, you take what you find, lodge where you may, and put up with newly plastered walls.

Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is.

as humans, we automatically attach a whole string of judgments, interpretations, questions, and beliefs to situations. Our task involves accepting the imperfection of our own humanity and loving ourselves for having these judgments, including the one that says we must be a spiritually moribund person for creating this reality.

The truth is that there is no such thing as a negative emotion. Emotions only become "bad" and have a negative effect on us when they are suppressed, denied, or unexpressed. Positive thinking is really just another form of denial.

Are you afraid?" Dtui asked her. "No more than I was about being born," Bpoo replied. "It's all part of the natural equation. Ashes to ashes. It's just that when you leave, you have some say in your wardrobe.