Quotes About Acceptance

I knew that I was the least-loved child because I was a girl and because my mother had died giving birth to me.

Normally, routine is the common element of daily life everywhere, the element that prevents man from reexamining his circumstances, because human beings are creatures of habit. People become accustomed to, and learn to live with, not only good things but also those that are – even in their own eyes – undesirable.

In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach all the shining goals we had set for ourselves, with what grace we can, to living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.

The average person has the most fear of death and in reality thinks most rarely about it. The most prominent one occupies himself with it most persistently, but nevertheless fears it the least. The one lives blindly day to day, sinning away, only to sink down before the grim reaper. The other carefully observes his approach but then looks him in the eye, calm and composed.

In order not to despair completely of the people with whom I lived, I had to separate the outward appearances of their lives from the reasons why they developed that way. Then I could bear everything without discouragement.

It is one of the many paradoxes of life he has come to accept, that learning the truth often requires acts of deception.

I go by Kit now… and, just so you know, Katie wants to be called Kat." Jesus Christ. Give me a break…

Peter Elers, one of the first openly gay vicars in the Church of England, who blessed a lesbian 'marriage' in 1976 on the understanding that, if the Church blessed battleships and budgerigars, it ought to find it in its heart to bless men and women in love.

My mother had narrowed her vision and chosen happiness, and I had willingly signed on, both of us ignoring the dangers of the new terrain.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

You have to remember that your mother is unaware of what she's done and always will be," Margot continued. "If you're waiting for an apology or gratitude, don't. You have hard work ahead. You need to forgive her and move on. Happiness is a choice that you have to make for yourself.

Nothing about us is right. We're the wrongest kids you've ever seen. Our faces are wrong with zits, we have the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, and I think we might be ugly. Our families are wrong because none of us are rich, our bodies are wrong because we suck at sports, and there's something really wrong with all of our personalities, because nobody likes us, not even the teachers. Teachers make fun of us too, and think we don't notice.

and I was a really fat kid, and that's why I do this to myself.

if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces.

You are every woman I ever loved and disavowed.

The friend I can trust is the one who will let me have my death. The rest are actors who want me to stay and further the plot.

With whom do you believe your lot is cast? From where does your strength come? I think somehow, somewhere every poem of mine must repeat those questions which are not the same. There is a whom , a where that is not chosen that is given and sometimes falsely given in the beginning we grasp whatever we can to survive

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

I don't see myself as angry, although other people see that. I just see myself as a short, dumpy guy with bad feet, and I'm passionate.

I think that football has always had a passionate, aggressive side, with players giving their all. People have to get used to this.

People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.