Quotes About Acceptance

I think that most of us feel like something is missing from our lives, and I wondered then if Knight's journey was to seek it. But life isn't about searching endlessly to find what's missing; it's about learning to live with the missing parts

But life isn't about searching endlessly to find what's missing; it's about learning to live with the missing parts.

Fighting against everything, he may have realized, only makes one's life infinitely harder. He has seen the bottomless nonsense of our world and has decided, like most of us, to simply try to tolerate it. He appears to have surrendered. It is rational, yet heartbreaking.

If you're born a human oddity, says the introductory chapter of Very Special People, every day of your life, starting in infancy, you are made aware that you are not as others are. When you get older, it continues, things are likely to get worse. You may hide from the world, advises the book, to avoid the punishment it inflicts on those who differ from the rest in mind or body.

Günümüzde art?k kimse kabahatini kabullenmek istemiyor, herkes kurban görülmek istiyor ve bunu s?kl?kla, en olmayacak ?artlarda dahi ba?ar?yor.

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

It didn't matter if you made a fool of yourself in front of strangers – he saw that now. It probably didn't matter much if you did it in front of your friends. The shameful thing was doing it in front of strangers, and being seen by your friends in the process.

I think it's true that the older you get, the more you cry

You're not normal!" she hissed. Then she gathered her garments and ran off into the night. Nouri lay back and looked up at the stars. He did not know what it meant to be normal. He only knew what it meant to be Nouri. Who had four ears. And was far from home. And was trying to find his way back to God. So he rose from the bench and made his way to his room, where he finally gave over to his crushing fatigue.

grace (free forgiveness when you don't deserve it a bit).

As soon as the dying stopped, the forgetting began.

We cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Amor fati. Love your fate. A friend of mine used to say that. The secret of happiness.

The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings.

I don't know what I did to deserve someone as smart and beautiful as you." "You were you. And maybe that was enough.

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

For most of my life, I've always been the youngest one at the table, and it's something I've come to expect, maybe take for granted.

There is nothing the heart doesn't already have. It's the mind that thinks it needs something more.

Holding on brings tension, letting go brings peace. We already know it, we just don't trust it.

Aging Poem I can live with my arthritis, And my dentures fit me fine. I can see with my bifocals, But I sure do miss my mind.

Seems like it's hard for an Asian bull dike with pink hair and a southern accent to fit in anywhere.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do when you're down there."? – George Burns

Nobody is saying that these people do not ultimately cease to be. And Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours. It is just that so often they live till their hair is white. They make excellent corpses, among the expensive flowers … Nobody

If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed.