Quotes About Acceptance

But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us. She seemed to have room for me; she never turned away in the pauses that allow for turning away.

But as the sun rose I crested the mountain of my self-pity and remembered I was always going to die at the end of this life anyway. What did it really matter if I spent it like this...as opposed to some other way? ...If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

Finally, in a low whisper, he said, "I think I might be a terrible person." For a split second I believed him—I thought he was about to confess a crime, maybe a murder. Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing. "No

One reason Helena and I would never be close friends is that I am about half as tall as she. People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which case the size difference is sexy. It means: I am willing to go the distance for you.

But as the sun rose I crested the mountain of my self-pity and remembered I was always going to die at the end of this life anyway.

Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy.

I realize that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.

Past a certain age, they give up on the name games, which is regrettable for someone like me who loves anything that involves going around a circle and saying something about yourself. I wish there was a class where we could just keep going around the circle, around and around, until we had finally said everything about ourselves.

It's not your fault. Perhaps this was really the only thing I had ever wanted to say to anyone, and be told.

It was still diving, it was still letting go of mammalian pride and embracing gravity.

I guess that's true, you really can't complain, can you?

Our bleak reality was now apparent: we couldn't leave and we couldn't change partners.

Not really, no. But me? Yes. Even though I have no pizzazz? What are you talking about, you perfect thing. You can see that I'm perfect?

When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special.

Everyone has things that they don't love about themselves but I think that as a woman its much healthier and more positive to focus on your good parts and the things you like about yourself, not pick yourself apart.

Azi ÅŸtiu c? a fi matur, a fi om întreg, nu înseamn? altceva decât a înÅ£elege c? eÅŸti r?u, fundamental ÅŸi dincolo de orice altceva.

Qué culpa tenía yo si estaba loco de una forma diferente a ellos?

Quizá no viva dentro de una historia importante, quizá sea tan solo un personaje secundario pero, para un hombre que afronta el final de su vida, cualquier perspectiva es preferible a la de desaparecer para siempre

As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth".

And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.

I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it.

If one lives to a grand old age, loss is an accepted part of life. It comes with the territory

We increase our suffering through our attempts to avoid it

aversion to suffering only worsens it.