Quotes About Acceptance

Every woman has a record of her body—a closet full of jeans and bras of various sizes, albums full of photographs revealing periods of weight gain and loss.

Teddy taught me about kindness, about love that is unconditional; a sentiment not dependent on acceptance, approval, or the expectation of something in return. It was the first time I would ever feel this from a man who wasn't my grandfather. And I didn't know what to do with it at all. If only I'd embraced our differences sooner. I didn't know it then, but we had so little time left.

It's not like I can change any of it now. I can only use the experience to avoid such situations in the future.

To feel at home in this desperate world of ours is the surest sign that one has failed to recognize it.

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.

Instead of seeing sickness as a problem, something to correct, we accept it as a fact of life. We've all agreed to this arbitrary set of rules that says sickness can't be escaped, illness is natural. Most

All we want, whether we are honeybees, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to be accepted, cherished and celebrated simply for being who we are. Is that so very difficult?"—DERRICK JENSEN, AMERICAN AUTHOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST

I want to thank every single one of you for choosing to dance instead of fight, for choosing to love instead of judge, for choosing to open your heart instead of running away from what is now truly possible.

Instead of getting personally involved in our problem, we can just as easily let go and let the majesty of the universe do its glorious thing.

Love gets bigger after forty," Fenton tells me. "After forty,, love says, 'Come one, come all.

I'm just saying, I guess, there's another version, after this version, to look forward to. Because of wisdom or hormones or just enough years going by. If you live long enough you quit chasing the things that hurt you; you eventually learn to hear the sound of your own voice.

How to hang on to that full-body joy I knew I was capable of and still understand it as elegy.

but for the rest of my own life, I want to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief without

Guenevere brought me a cookie and a big box of Kleenex. She said that choices can't be good or bad. There is only the event and the lessons learned from it.

But a broken heart—God knows, I have found—doesn't actually kill you. And irony and disinterest are false protections, ones that won't serve us, or the earth, in the end.

We cannot change who we are. Sooner or later we will all have to face ourselves.

You love the people they were before, before all the awfulness that made them do this thing.

I don't. We each have free will. There may be higher purpose, but the actual path each of us takes to get there, and whether we choose to accept it at all, is up to us." She turns to me. "If you can't let go of that fear of making the wrong decision, you will never be able to take the chances you must take to live life fully.

You love the people they were before, below all the awfulness that made them do this thing, you know?

Though Dutch, I was considered of Aryan race and my child -- otherwise shamed as uneheliches Kind, conceived out of wedlock -- might just be accepted into the Lebensborn program and raised by a good German family.

Quieres a las personas por lo que eran antes, por encima del horror que las hizo comportarse como lo hicieron.

Don't judge," I say, the rebuke in my voice sharper than I intended. "Sometimes the running just gets to be too much.

makes even the most difficult of times better and the strangest of villages home.