Quotes About Acceptance

You don't have to change who you are to impress me, I love you just the way you are.

Keep this in mind. One day there's going to be a guy who's going to love you. Your body, your smile, the way you walk, the way you talk, the way you laugh, he's going to love you and you are going to feel confident and on top of the world. One day you won't feel insecure. Your day is coming. I promise.

Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.

I know my heart will never be the same but I'm telling myself I'll be okay...

Men, if you are a virgin, there is nothing wrong with that. Don't let no one make you think you a loser because of that.

If someone loves you, they should not be envious of you pouring your heart and soul and time and energy into the things that you are passionate about, but instead....they should love you MORE because you are so involved in those things.

When you truly care for someone, their mistakes never change our feelings because it's the mind that gets angry but the heart still cares..

If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday...

I think it's impossible to really know someone, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

If you love someone it is always good to let it go, and if it comes running back, you will soon realize this is was definatly worth living for and giving a part of your life on, but in the end, just realize and know tht everything does happen for a reason, and in the end your always happy with the decisions you make or the decisions your about to make...

Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.

I understand perfectly why some of my autistic patients scream and flap their arms--it's to frighten off extroverts

Today it's nice to be able to entertain odd thoughts without having to marry them all. Thank God. I can think whatever the hell I want. Entertaining odd thoughts won't make you crazy. Refusing to entertain odd thoughts won't make you well.

A world without prejudice, stigma, and discrimination against those who have or are thought to have mental illness would be a better one for everyone. What so-called normal people are doing when they define disease like manic depression or schizophrenia is reassuring themselves that they don't have a thought disorder or an affective disorder, that their thoughts and feelings make perfect sense.

If you're going to survive in this world, here's what you need to know: you are who you are, not what people think you are.

If you simply accept life as it is, you will be a lot more fulfilled and increasingly worry free.

The breath breathes itself. If it was up to us to remember to breathe, we'd have forgotten long ago. So tuning into the breath can be an important antidote to the natural tendency toward believing that we have to be in control.

You cannot force the mind. And if you try to, you won't like what comes of it.

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Weeds grew, and I ignored my chores, while the cat worried her tail of its most plumescent fur. I saw my body, white as tallow, my face framed by colorless hair, noted my appetites, then put them aside, walked and walked to wear it all away.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of 'not knowing.

Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.