Quotes About Acceptance

I've tried breaking things to feel better - and found that it only feels better while things are breaking, not the next moment, when they're broken. It's a release that leads to nowhere.

This is how we understand. We wore your flaws. We wore your fears. We made your mistakes.

Every night I pray for a lovely, swoopy-haired homosexual to come to our school, in the same way that Margaret prayed for boobs and my grandfather prays for my eternal salvation.

Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes. TINY: People are halves? LYNDA: They're not trying to sell you on it yet, but believe me, they will. The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half. Agreed?

More than anything else, we want to fit into our own families.

We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

Answerless questions can destroy. Move on. - A

I will not let myself think that things are suddenly better. I will not let myself think that we've somehow escaped the us we always end up being. But at the same time, I will not deny what's happening. I will not deny this happiness. Because if happiness feels real, it almost doesn't matter if it's real or not.

If there is one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

you've gotta learn to love the falling, because it's all about falling.

Everything--the section of comfortable chairs in the middle, the long colourful chains that dangled lights from the ceiling--seemed designed to make you feel like you were part of something larger, without actually being made to feel small.

Cuando las cosas se rompen, lo que impide recomponerlas no es el hecho de que se hayan roto. Lo que sucede es que una pequeña pieza se pierde. Las demás no encajarían aunque quisieran. La forma ha cambiado definitivamente.

Flujo. El estado natural. Cambiamos de humor. Cambian nuestras vidas. Cambian nuestros sentimientos hacia el otro. Cambian nuestras relaciones. Cambia la canción. Cambia el aire. Cambia la temperatura del agua de la ducha. Acéptalo. Hay que aceptarlo.

We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

if i told her about liking guys, she would probably stop trying to date me, which would be a huge plus, but i also know i'd immediately become her gay pet, and that's the last kind of leash i want. and it's not like i'm really that gay, i fucking hate madonna.

I am trying not to think of endings.

I should have felt proud, but instead I felt awful. That I had let him down so many times, that I had been a horrible brother. That he loved me anyway. That maybe he knew more about life than I did, even if I'd had more experience. Because knowing about life is really about knowing how it should be, not just how it is.

You need to love him. I don't care who you thought he was, or who you want him to be, you need to love him exactly as he is because your son is a remarkable human being. You have to understand that.

I don't think anything can stay, he tells me. Good or bad. So I think the important part is to not get caught up in worrying about whether something will stay, and instead enjoy it for the time it's here.

breath is not aware of its history; it is just breath. I wish I could be like that, or love could be like that.

When people say love is blind, they act like that's a good thing. But some people find their way around in the darkness a little better than others.

I got confused between what I wanted to happen and what I should have known would happen. I've been doing that a lot lately. I know it's not helpful.

We're not gay. We're eight.

This is not good," I told the trees. Don't fight it. Acknowledge it. Talk to yourself. "Already covered," I said. "Unless you have something to add?" "No," I replied. "Do go on.