Quotes About Acceptance

You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for

A river can't forgive because it is only capable, in the first place, of love. A river loves the dumpers, the polluters, the slayers, the nest-thieves, the bird-killers, the dammers, the water-stealers. A river loves even the clear-cutters. But I can forgive. I am trying to be like the river.

Sometimes what we want or don't want doesn't matter in the end. Sometimes magic doesn't listen after all.

Bo przykro, gdy kto? kopnie to, co ty kochasz. A ludzie teraz i niecierpliwi, i roztargnieni, i cz?sto mówi? wcale nie to, co chc?, i robi? wcale nie to, co chc?, a ot tak, co zdarzy si? akurat.

The vicissitude of life teaches us about our limitations in a world with no guarantees and permanence.

There are times in life when we need to allow a sad memory to run its course."

When nothing can be done it is not a bad idea to do nothing.

The nail that sticks out is hammered down.

You go through life thinking that there's a secret to life. And the secret to life is there is no secret to life.

Many hours later, Elise and Jamey go home, after dancing and fire juggling and ice queens, and they never see Frankie again. He was reunited with his tribe. Everything that was odd and ungainly about him became beautiful in the right crowd.

Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.

This book is about racial identity, something most people who are not white take for granted. They come to it early, feel it strongly, and make no apologies for it.

Ei se että tunnistaa vääryyden, vaan että sietää sen.

Patience and wisdom walk hand in hand, like two one-armed lovers.

I want to scream sometimes, because I hate when people refer to a dead person as the late" so and so. I'm sorry to break that bad news, but that person isn't just late—they're not even coming!

Love means never having to say you're sorry for a minor stab wound.

I didn't like the people who just wanted to hear about the terrible things that had happened to me. But the friends who wanted to bask in my fondest memories of the Prockses made me feel special, inviting me into my own sense of knowing a right from a wrong.

Feeling valued and known are also part of this belonging. If a family claims you as their own but you don't really feel that they know you or see you for who you are, you'll feel like an outsider within your own family.

When children are not shamed for undeveloped skills but rather are loved quite fully just for being who they are, then competence becomes less important.

Mothers don't need to be perfect, and can't be. The perfection, when there, is supplied through the eyes of the child—who, when the mother does a good-enough job meeting her basic needs, feels total adoration

If you can access the sense of your inherent preciousness, you can rise above shame. If you can meditate and feel equanimity, you may be able to rise above your distress.

You grieve what you lost and what you never had. If you try to short-circuit the grief, the grief will find a way to short-circuit you.

when he says that most of us find adversity unacceptable; we live in child's fantasy that everything should work out as we want it to. Like so many Buddhists before him, Fischer recognizes that suffering is universal. It happens to everybody. Yet embracing it offers us a key. "It is exactly in digesting the profundity of our difficulties that life opens up to us," Fischer says.6

I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.