Quotes About Acceptance

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

I spent so much of my life on the outside that I began to doubt that I would ever truly be in with any one people, any one place, and one tribe. But Harlem is big enough, diverse enough, scrappy enough, old enough, and new enough to encompass all that I am and all that I hope to be. After all that traveling, I am, at last, home.

It is enough to know that not to know is enough. It is enough not to know.

I don't know if he gets all of it, but he loves it anyway, and you don't have to understand everything about something to love it, do you? In fact sometimes that can make you love something more.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

We must learn to accept that there is no meaning to life, but this raises the question whether life is worth living at all – which he saw as the fundamental question of philosophy.

His sister was a lesbian, but that didn't make him decent.

Ik denk dat mama zich een gast heeft gevoeld in het leven. Ze deed altijd alsof het haar niets aanging, het leven, alsof het niet van haar was. Alsof ze er toevallig in terecht was gekomen, zoals je een huis binnen kan lopen wanneer je je in het adres hebt vergist, en dan per ongeluk in dat huis blijft hangen. Buiten stroomt het van de regen en je hebt geen paraplu bij je.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

No matter how much you've been warned, Death always comes without knocking. Why now? is the cry. Why so soon? It's the cry of a child being called home at dusk.

She is one of those people who have found serenity because they have never tried to dodge suffering.

And the King smiled down upon his little dark wife who could so wholeheartedly admire another woman.

One does not analyse a person one loves. One just loves them as they are.

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?

We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.

I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather.

If you are a woman, if you are a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.