Quotes About Acceptance

You're not beautiful!" blurted Harriet. "And you're not tactful, Princess," said Whiskerella dryly. "I can maybe do something with my hair, but I think you're stuck.

If somebody steps on your shoes and ruins them, don't freak out.. get a new pair of shoes. If you miss something, don't freak out.. there's nothing you can do to change it.. just move on

No one has called me. They all think I'm toxic or damaged, or both. I cannot stop crying so Dad holds me while Mom stands in the doorway with her half-open mouth and palms against her chest. Dad rocks me and whispers to me. He sings a little song in my ear as he dries my naked body with a towel while Mom stands in the doorway. He carries me to my bed, rests me head on his knees and lets my tears and snot soak dark spots into his white trousers.

No it ain't nothing left to say. —Oddisee, "Tomorrow Today

You cannot unsee what has been seen once the veil is lifted, Reverend Olumide says in church. We cannot return to the garden of Eden. When I meet with him he says I need to confront my fears, that the devil torments us with that which scares us most. So, I cross the line between the blue hallways tiles and the white locker-room floor and navigate my way to locker umber thirty-two.

hating is a common thing which everyone feels easy than understanding..

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.

Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.

I teased Fabrizio: "We're studying theology here." "How? Are you making fun of me?" "Not at all. Livy read historical chronicles. He interprets them by his own passionate views and freezes them for all time. . . . He wanted theoretical support for a conclusion he accepted beforehand. Isn't that theology?

God—I don't know why—wanted me to be a Czech. It was not my choice. But I accept it, and I try to do something for my country because I live here.

7. It is the nature of the mind to accept certain things and to reject others; this is bondage, nothing else.

I don't know at what point you stop hurting and start healing

I think it ain't that prayer doesn't work, it's that we don't like the answers.

The hardest thing about being a grown up is realizing there are no magic formulas to release the ones we love from pain. Maybe that's why I enjoy computer games so much; you get to be God.

To move forward, you have to accept the truth of a situation. Not persist in myth-making.

Lately, Nastoyna felt that she had no right to criticize anyone at all -- no man, no animal, no bird, because each lived his own life, which was not in his control and which he could not change.

She had to live a long and wretched life to admit to herself at its end that she hadn't understood anything about it.

Let them drown me, if that's what they want. Let them. You die once. What's there to be afraid of?

If you're being swept away, off somewhere, then why count the pebbles on the shore; they're on the shore, after all.

Life was not a piece of clothing that could be changed ten times. What there is, is all yours, and it's wrong to refuse any of it, even the very worst.

Everything that happens is for the best, so that life is happier and more interesting. Just live without looking around or thinking.

Slowly but surely life becomes normal, and a man gets used to it, it doesn't happen any other way.