Quotes About Acceptance

my own instinctive feeling is that you do not work through bereavement. It works through you. It is the passivity that's involved in bereavement, the feeling that something terrible is being done to you – which it is – that is the most frightening.

I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.

Life is not the way it's supposed to be, it's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference

Life is not the way it's supposed to be, it's the way it is. The way you cope with that is what makes the difference.

Life is not what it's supposed to be.It's what it is.The way you cope with it is what makes the difference

Cred c? cel mai mare dar pe care l-a? putea primi de la cineva este s? fiu v?zut?, ascultat?, in?eleas? ?i atins?.

She knew how his mind worked. He would process their discussion over the next few days. At odd times he would utter an objection out of the blue. While buttering his toast he might say, "That lawn is a disaster, you know." Or when he slid into bed at night, "The property taxes are probably triple what we pay now." She would reply with a smile and a nod and revel in a secret satisfaction. Let him brood over the downsides, all the while becoming accustomed to the idea.

felt the sting of rejection.

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Changer, c'est toujours perdre un bloc de soi. On le sent qui se détache, après un temps d'adaptation. C'est un deuil et un soulagement en même temps.

Le plus difficile à admettre, c'est la certitude qu'on oubliera.

You can't plead tolerance for gays by saying that they're just like everyone else. Tolerance is something we should extend to people who are not like everyone else.

The root of heterosexual fear of male homosexuality is in the fact that anyone might be gay. Straight men aren't threatened by a flamboyant faggot because they know they aren't like that; they're threatened by a guy who's just like they are who turns out to be queer.

No one ever asks what causes heterosexuality because no one is interested in stopping it

Each child wants to know immediately if he is a worthy person in your eyes. You cannot pretend, because the child knows all the things about himself that worry him. If you act like you like him, but ignore the things he is anxious about, it doesn't count. The child is glad you are nice to him, but deep down he figures if you really knew what he was like, you'd hate him. So your liking him without knowing him just makes him feel guilty.

Children are deeply curious about odd behaviors and seldom offended or worried by them. What a remarkable gift to bestow on another person, it occurs to me, and so difficult for adults to accomplish.

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

We didn't believe in tomorrow. We we couldn't forget what had happened yesterday.

When you live next to death ... you don't think about it anymore, you just try to encounter it as seldom as possible.

Put up with people around,they serve as your background.

The real beauty's "No" does not offend, you know.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.