Quotes About Acceptance

Her face looked younger. She looked like she had been pretending to have hope and now she didn't have to pretend anymore. (Confession time: that moment, when the humans or augmented humans realize you're really here to help them. I don't hate that moment.)

She knows SecUnit is not so much taunting her with its abilities as refusing to pretend to be anything other than it is. And that's for the best, because being honest about that is the only way forward.

While being eaten would end all his problems, he wasn't quite ready for so final a solution.

Don Abene's warm brown skin was lined at the corners of her mouth and eyes, and her long dark hair had strands of white in it, but for all I knew it was a cosmetic choice. She laughed and her dark eyes crinkled. "We're finally going, Miki!

She showed her fangs. "Just let her get to know you, then she definitely won't bother you.

If I got angry at myself for being angry I would be angry constantly and I wouldn't have time to think about anything else.

They don't want me. (Hey, I don't want me, either, but I'm stuck with me.)

know that's actually not a permanent solution and pretending bad things aren't happening is not a great survival strategy in the long run

I had talked myself into believing that I hadn't actually lost it as much as I thought I had when Mensah had offered to let me hang out in the hub with the humans like I was an actual person or something.

What is promised is that those with the courage to mourn will find, in the wake of mourning, a strange blessing: that after the sadness is expressed, the pain released into the accepting air, it is as though some love at the heart of life wraps its arms around the mourner and says, There, there, I am with you, I hear you, I understand. Everything's going to be all right.

Shame brings you down. But true humility will only lift you higher.

You are who God made you, not who your father made you.

You have the right to be less than perfect.

Every prayer gets answered. Sometimes the answer is "no," but sometimes the answer is "not yet.

You fail because you are human.

Worrying meant you were trying to control something you had no business trying to control

It takes courage to be happy, you know-even when you keep moving. It takes guts to accept things as they really are and not blame life for being what it is.

Introverted children may not be as demonstrative as extroverted children. They love and value you, but they may not talk about it as much. Accept your temperament and your child's. They can't be changed. Both of you have wonderful qualities to contribute to your family and to the world.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. —John F. Kennedy

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

also free from closemindedness, obscurantism and bigotry.

Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.'

It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all think that everyone else lives in fortresses, in fastnesses: behind moats, behind sheer walls studded with spikes and broken glass. But in fact we inhabit much punier structures. We are, as it turns out, all jerry-built. Or not even. You can just stick your head under the flap of the tent and crawl right in. If you get the okay.

I have always derived great comfort from William Shakespeare. After a depressing visit to the mirror or an unkind word from a girlfriend or an incredulous stare in the street, I say to myself: 'Well. Shakespeare looked like shit.' It works wonders.