Quotes About Acceptance

Your brakes have gone out. May as well pretend to enjoy the ride.

Only the people who get you, deserve you.

I think we are going to have to love ourselves. Fuck.

And then I got really sad. I'm simply too young to hate my body. I'm going to be old in like two minutes, and my body really will be difficult to love. But now, well, it's fine. Why shouldn't I admire it ? It's mine and it keeps me healthy and I should accept it, just the way it is. There are people who are sick or disabled and who would kill to have a strong, healthy body, and the last thing they're worrying about is their fucking cellulite.

In the matter of prejudice...we are all the same. Goddess and demon, human and monster: none of us understand difference, but at least some of us make the effort to try.

The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.

I stand back from him. I don't understand. You've seen parts of me that are not perfect, and you still love me?

Funny how you can get used to not having things you thought you couldn't live without.

I'm okay...in that kind of dead inside way

It's one thing to run from ghosts, it's quite another to let them catch you.

While I may hate that I was once fat, I am absolutely thankful that I grew up relying on something other than beauty.

I want to ask him if he thinks I can get used to being seen like this, being loved like this. I want to ask him why I can be myself around him. Why I still belong to myself around him.

Those who wish to enter this path must accept that they can never explain either to themselves or to others the mysterious inner unfolding that is taking them home.

There is a time to struggle to achieve what we want and a time to give up any desire, a time to be strong and a time to surrender one's strength.

When the Sufi Abû Sa'îd ibn Abî-l-Khayr was asked what Sufism entailed he replied: "Whatever you have in your mind—forget it; whatever you have in your hand—give it; whatever is to be your fate—face it!

Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.

An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith.

Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices.

Some times the best place to hide... is in other peoples prejudices

My love is hopeless! I know it. But it will feed me to my dying day.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.

It's only by facing things that you ever put them behind you. -Mrs. McConnell to Susan

A person without regrets is called a corpse.