Quotes About Acceptance

I've never felt just like me, just like Alison. I can't be myself in this family because it's more important that I be... this person who's not... Adam. Who's normal. Smart. Good. Who's not... Autistic.

In this vale of tears we must take what we're sent, feathery, leathery, lovely or bent.

Daughters primarily need love and security. This is why a critical spirit is so destructive. Remember, we want our children to have fat, prospering souls. Criticism and impatience destroy rather than build up. Daughters need to feel important, loved, accepted, needed, wanted, and appreciated. Mothers must be diligent to praise their daughters, not for their achievements primarily, but for who they are.

Mothers must do all they can to nurture security and acceptance and never compare one sister to another. Each daughter will have special gifts and special needs. It is mother's job to help identify these gifts and encourage the exercise of them.

Contentment is a deep satisfaction with the will of God.

Some people say it is okay to be fat but you must think of being healthy,I personally think loving yourself ,your body is the healthiest thing one can do.

I am no wise man. Every day shows me how little I know about life, and how wrong I can be. But there are things I know to be true. I know I will die. And I know that the only sane response to such a horror is to love.

A human being, as I've said before, gets used to anything.

I tell them I am not at peace in spite of what I suffered, but because of it.

When hope is lost, the mind protects us with denial, and my denial protected me from facing what I knew.

Does the hatred you feel ever disappear? Or is it something that never goes away... No matter how many times you try to erase it? What I have always feared the most... Is myself. Because I, too, have hatred inside me.

I feel, right now, that if time stopped at this moment, it would be just fine by me.

We have lots of ups and downs, pleasures and pains, but that's life and we learn to accept the bad with the good. Without the bad times, we wouldn't appreciate the good times.

What can I tell you? Welcome to the human race. You people like to pretend things are simple, even at your own cost.

There are more kinds of belonging than you know, Ronit, my joy. The world is not so easily categorized as you might prefer. And you are trying to steal that which you do not even desire.

I've been thinking about two states of being—being gay, being Jewish. They have a lot in common. You don't choose it, that's the first thing. If you are, you are. There's nothing you can do to change it. Some people might deny this, but even if you're only "a little bit gay" or "a little bit Jewish," that's enough for you to identify yourself if you want.

Yes. I'm married. But that is a thing between me and Dovid, do you see? And whatever harm you might do to it has been done already. There is nothing more. And whatever pain I may give him, I have caused already. I know that. And whatever God may think of me, He thinks already.

People are allowed to be weak.

I have no regrets. I've got my health.

I know you feel that everything's been taken away from you. But you'll get things back. It just won't be quite like before. But it'll still be good.

Shikataganai, desho

Radical acceptance is to know that painful things are still going to happen, but how we respond makes a difference. We don't have to condone our current reality, but we have to accept it for what it is instead of staying stuck, wishing it were different.

I wanted to confess that if someone took out a gun and killed me onstage he would be doing me a favor.

There can always be healing, even if there is no cure.