Quotes About Acceptance

Cuando recibió el primer disparo, no le dolió nada. Por un instante creyó que tenía una flor grande, roja y caliente sobre el pecho, la quiso coger para llevarle a su madre, pero estaba maniatado; sin embargo, todos le vieron sonreír, y cayó muerto. De 'Tobita', p.48.

Life has never given me what I wanted. But it has, once in a while, given me what I needed.

Realistically, being positive isn't always being realistic.

There's a time in your life where you just have to let go, no matter how much you want and need to hold on.

De waarheid is dat William Macfarlane vond dat hij schuldig was aan Alice' dood, ook al kon hij er nog zo weinig aan doen. - Leo

In this pause, I suddenly saw something very clearly. Whatever it was I wanted from my mother was simply not there to be had. It was not her fault. And it was therefore not my fault that I was unable to elicit it.

It's said, after all, that people reach middle age the day they realize they're never going to read Remembrance of Things Past.

At the danger of waxing nostalgic about the 'old days,' I don't want to be like everyone else. I want acceptance, but I want acceptance of my difference, not my sameness. It's a funny contract. The cultural machine wants to chew everyone up and turn them into this uniform little substance.

Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

I don't deserve that,' said Cadvan. 'Love isn't about deserving. It just is.

This time I could be your lunatic daughter," said Maerad. "If that would help." She messed up her hair, trailing tresses across her face in witch-locked tangles, and adopted a slack-jawed expression. Cadvan laughed grimly. "I'm beginning to think that in some respects your education was quite thorough," he said.

It is the pain of being in the world, where so much that is fair passes into death and forgetfulness. But if we are to know joy, we must embrace that pain. You cannot have one without the other." Maerad nodded, her face downcast. Sometimes, it seemed to her, the pain far outweighed the joy.

Never be ashamed of your love," he said gently. "The only thing to be ashamed of is denying your love. That is what makes the shadow grow within your heart; that is the darkening of the Light. And we all have many loves.

To love is never wrong. It may be disastrous; it may never be possible; it may be the deepest agony. But it is never wrong.

You know the good thing about digging your own grave? You always make it just the right size.

I've lost twenty-eight pounds since Emily's death. I've stopped coloring my hair and wearing makeup and I had the bolt-ons removed, and so I am literally no longer the woman I once was. There is no reason to watch me. No flattering reason, anyway.

Descubrí que aceptar la verdad de quién era me otorgaba poder. Tal vez no sea una verdad que otros puedan aceptar, pero no puedo vivir de ningún otro modo. ¿Cómo sería vivir una mentira cada minuto de tu vida?" Dama Dela

The world wasn't perfect. Life wasn't perfect.

Are any of us safe? How do we make it through? How, when you know you are going to leave this life whether you want to or not - when you know that you and everyone you love will leave this life - do we make it? I don't want to die.

You're a woman,' said Ogo. Ayndra spat, 'Ha!' and then started laughing. She turned her back on him again, and pulled an undertunic over her head. Through the wool she said, 'And what of it?' 'I . . . I thought you were a boy.' 'I never told you so.' 'No, but . . . I thought . . . there's a rule of no women in the camp.' 'No women in the camp. Is there a rule of no women in the army?

She wouldn't be sad, she didn't care if she were ugly; she had accepted her wistful elfin face as she accepted the birds and trees, as something which was part of the earth.

My lady, for your virtue and goodness, God would receive you in rags.

The idea of monogamous same-sex relationships being acceptable to God emerges from an unwillingness to submit to the clear teaching of Scripture.

And perhaps I have tried too hard to be someone else without realizing at first what I presently am.