Quotes About Acceptance

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

Sometimes the other guys teased [Patrick] about having a girl friend, but it didn't seem to bother him. It didn't bother me, either. If those guys couldn't tell the difference between a friend and a girlfriend—well, that made them too dense to be worth worrying about.

One day many years later you will ask her if she wishes you were straight. She will hesitate, then say,"I love you just the way you are." You will never forget that.

Yes. I really love you, Becky, and when you love someone that much, the pain and the pleasure is that much more intense. But forgiveness is a given.

Some things can't be ignored. You can only conquer your past if you choose to face it.

Perhaps Beauty, real Beauty, is actually the opposite of feeling inadequate, it's feeling full and accepted and part of the ever-present life refulgent around you.

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.

and only by assimilating into their community would they succeed.

This love is not a melting of self, a softened apprehension of the other. The loved one need not meet my gaze, acknowledge my presence, approve or know of me.

If I'm meant to love people, I should love everyone. What kind of tide can an ocean bestow if it picks and chooses the rocks it's willing to touch?

Hello, still waiting for an unexpected development? There was none. It happens. It happens all the time.

You play the hand you're dealt. You play it without false hope or despair, without comparing other people's hand, or questioning why you've got this hand, you just play it, as best you can, today, and the next day, and the day after that.

Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.

A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

Fortune's truth is regret's denial.

Waiting for the end to come, Wishing I had strength to stand, This is not what I had planned, It's out of my control

I want to find something I've wanted all along Somewhere I belong

And when you're feeling empty, keep me memory, and leave out all the rest, leave out all the rest

In the end, it doesn't even matter.

I'm losing what i don't deserve..

What I have always loved most in men is imperfection.

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men, not to lament nor to abhor them. I have done all in my might to understand them.- Spinoza

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.