Quotes About Acceptance

I'm no one important or famous, no matter. It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number. I have loved and been loved as deeply as a man can hope for. Which makes me a lucky man. It also means that I have suffered. Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.

Knowing your self-worth isn't something others can validate. You either believe it or you don't.

Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.

Humans need to belong. Humans have always needed tribes. Today we find tribes in family or clubs or religion. What happens when we fall out of them? I suppose, in prehistoric times, it was fatal to be cast out of a tribe, to be exiled or excommunicated from the group, away from the people we love and need. Exile from the tribe is a form of execution.

Grief isn't a luxury; it's an appropriate response to loss. You don't just will it away. If you allow it to run its course, it will fade with time, but if you ignore it or pretend it doesn't exist, it only gets worse.

I don't believe society has ever grown more tolerant. It just changes targets.

Some people aren't meant to fight. They're meant to pick up the pieces.

Ostin, quit calling us mutants

We can bemoan what we have lost, or we can be grateful to have been blessed with something to mourn.

True understanding often opens the door to forgiveness.

We live in a world that's always making us work for love. It's cause and effect. That's the story of my childhood. If I can be good enough, maybe my mother will love me.

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding. Alan Christoffersen's diary

Some own up to their past. Some are owned by their past. The wise take what they can from the past and then leave it behind.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain. Some people go to such lengths to avoid pain that they give up on life. They bury their hearts, or they drug or drink themselves numb until they don't' feel anything anymore. The irony is, in the end their escape becomes more painful than what they're avoiding.

If you love only those who give you happy news, you will never love those worthy of your trust.

Regret is a useless emotion: it's like brushing your teeth after you find a cavity.

Fate does not bend for us-we must bend to it.

Grief is the truest evidence of love. And we should always be grateful to have something to love, even if it means that we have to lose it.

They say love is blind, but it's not. Infatuation is blind. Emotional neediness is blind. Love sees the fault - it just sees beyond it as well.

He didn't understand that one person's love is better than a thousand people's approval.

There isn't time for regret. There never is.

Grief isn't a luxury, it's an appropriate response to loss. You don't just will it away. If you allow it to run its course, it will fade with time, but if you ignore it or pretend it doesn't exist, it only gets worse.

She didn't want to eat, but I insisted. She had already

We live in a world that's always making us work for love. It's cause and effect. That's the story of my childhood. If I can be good enough, maybe my mother will love me. "The problem is, somewhere along the way you figure out that you can't ever be good enough. It finally just got to be too much for me. You hit this point where you just want to scream, 'Love me for who I am or get out of my life.