Quotes About Acceptance

It's never too late to come home, he said, and pulled me gently, insistently toward him.All you have to do...is stop moving away.

Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.

Our lives are like these things I make. Turn 'em, build 'em, bake 'em in fire. That's what you've been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don't have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine, or just left empty. You have, son. You have.

No one looks at us. We might as well be invisible; or clothing marks us as strangers, transients. They are polite, so polite; no one stares at us.

I don't believe God really cares what you eat, or what you wear, or whom you love. I think that if God made the stars, He must have a greater perspective.

The serpent eating itself, tail-first. We live to repeat the same mistakes, to push away the ones we love, to move on when we want to stay, to wait in silence when we should speak. In the life we have chosen to lead, loss is the only constant. Loss, that eats up everything – like the snake, even itself.

You may be a foreigner, but you have the heart of a Frenchman.

my mother have taught me that food is a universal passport. Whatever the constraints of language, culture or geography, food crosses over all boundaries. To offer food is to extend the hand of friendship; to accept is to be accepted into the most closed of communities. I

L'ho lasciata fare. Non ho detto che sarebbe andato tutto bene. Non ho fatto lo sforzo di consolarla. A volte è meglio lasciare le cose come sono, lasciare che il dolore faccia il suo corso.

The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.

To belong so often means to exclude;

It turned out that my curiosity did not outweigh my courage after all. Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they're not what you hoped for.

And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.

Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they're not what you hoped for them.

Everyone will think I'm ugly. Tik Tok smiled. That's true. But we are a small village. We have narrow tastes. There's no telling who else in the world would think you're beautiful.

Many people in the village wanted her to be more of a girl, and Peter had wanted her to be large and brave but a little less large and brave than him. But Pine Sap was sure enough to want her to be exactly who she was.

Maybe all of her strangeness, her curse, her always feeling like an outsider, had all existed so that she could belong here, with Peter.

You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded.