Quotes About Acceptance

Every friend was once a stranger.

There's a time when a man needs to fight and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny's lost, the ship has sailed and that only a fool will continue. The truth is I've always been a fool.

There'll be things in your life you'll regret. Dumb mistakes, bad choices. They're like these awful tattoos you can't get rid of. So you wear something over them. Keep them out of sight. That's all I've been doing. Just trying not to look at it.

I didn't have a choice. The pain was just there. The clock would keep turning, and eventually it would be morning. I just had to find a way to get through.

Sentirse culpable no cambia el pasado, así como preocuparse no cambia el futuro.

Lo único que logramos sintiéndonos culpables por el ayer es arruinar nuestro día de hoy.

Lots of water under that bridge, let's not drown ourselves in it.

Tal vez el amor no nace ahí, no en un repentino arrebato de passion, sino en el reconocimiento y la sencilla aceptación de, de algo que no sé qué es

Na mi?o?? bosk?, nie histeryzuj! - odburkn??a. - Po prostu umieram, koniec kropka.

Pacjent - powiedzia?a mi pewnego dnia Anna, ju? blisko ko?ca - to dziwne s?owo. Cierpliwy. A ja wcale nie jestem cierpliwa.

There is no way to master the fact with which I live.

Thus it is I accept without much grumble their failings and my own: the abuse of my enemies, the lapses of my friends; the growing pains in both my legs, my goatly seizures, my errors of fact and judgement, my failures of resolve–all these and more, the ineluctable shortcomings of mortal studenthood.

We thought it proved Savannah was cosmopolitan, that we were sophisticated enough to accept a gay man socially.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

It isn't a matter of getting the body you want, it's a matter of doing the most you can with the body you have.

Focus on where you are instead of where you wish you were. The joy will follow.

Those people... well, they're not people at all, Bruno

We all are [normal]. Their idea of normal just happens to be different to some other people's idea of normal. But this is the world we live in. Some people simply cannot accept something that is outside of their experience.

We're none of us normal. Not in this fucking country.

Other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of a cupboard.

Hay veces en que le envidio su juventud, pero trato de no pensar mucho en eso. Un anciano no debe tener celos de aquellos que vienen a ocupar su puesto, y recordar el tiempo en que era joven, sano y viril es un acto de masoquismo que no sirve de nada.

Please don't let Julian die, I asked God. And please stop me from being a homosexual. Only when I stood up and walked away did I realize that that had been two prayers, so I went back and lit a second candle, which cost me another penny.

Why do they hate us so much anyway?' I asked after a lengthy pause. 'If they're not queer themselves, then what does it matter to them if someone else is?' 'I remember a friend of mine once telling me that we hate what we fear in ourselves,' she said with a shrug.

Why are you so afraid of people being happy? he read. Why can't you just live and let live?