Quotes About Acceptance

The town stood witness to her fall As she crashed to the earth Exposed and utterly vulnerable Her secret lives, lies and truths Stained her skin and lay in mounds at her feet Her foes sat in judgment as a jury, But love came . . . with gentle hands Love dried her tears Love covered her shame Love sheltered her with compassion Love accepted her anyway Love embraced her Love welcomed her home.

But I know that if I don't at least try, I'll stay the way I am till it kills me. Till I kill me, I mean. I never really accept that that's what I'm doing - I say it, but I don't believe it.

You may always feel regret over what happened that night, Bertie. But that doesn't mean you can't move on with your life. You were brave tonight," said Warden Ita. "But it takes a different kind of bravery to talk to the ones we love, ask forgiveness, and move on. Sometimes all we can do is take one step at a time.

stop dwelling on it? If you think about it day

Life falls apart. We try to get a grip and hold it together. And then we realize we don't want to hold it together.

I will never stop grieving for my long-held wish for enduring love that does not reduce its major players to something less than they are.

Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong.

We have to mourn our dead, but we cannot let them take over our life.

she had gone too far into the unhappiness of the world to start all over again.

It was hard to accept that the first man in my life would do things that were to my disadvantage if they were to his advantage. Yet it was a revelation that somehow set me free.

I wanted to die of shame but everyone insisted on keeping me alive. I had to live.

Can we accept that language is sacred and scared and it's scarred as well, because that's how we all are?

Guilt is a feeble emotion. It surrenders too easily

Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don't love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends.

And who can speak more authoritatively of what it is like to inhabit the middle ground between biology and culture than gender-variant people? An individual who has inhabited the social roles of both and and woman, with all the cultural baggage that accrues to both states - or to neither- acquires a kind of gender gnosis: a secret knowledge denied the rest of us who live in our assigned boxes, M or F, with really probing the boundaries.

Avery important change that has yet to be made is the time we transgenders are no longer called 'sex changes'. After all, consider this: we are NOT CHANGING anything! Indeed, we are merely CORRECTING pronouns, names, manner of dress, hormones and less to MATCH what has always been in our brains...

Straight people, like gay or transgendered people, have complex and multifaceted gender identities.

Maybe most of all, Karl is like family because of how I feel when I'm around him: completely and unself-consciously myself.

Many women could learn from men to accept some conflict and difference without seeing it as a threat to intimacy, and many men could learn from women to accept interdependence without seeing it as a threat to their freedom.

IT'S 1996; MY father is eighty-eight. I arrive for a visit at their Westchester condo. My mother greets me at the door. After we've hugged and kissed, my father appears at the end of the hallway. It's taken him longer to rise from his chair. He isn't carrying the cane he finally agreed to use after his last fall. He stumbles, but the wall catches him. Something inside me rebels: who stole my father and put this old man in his place?

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation — or a relationship.

it takes courage to look life in the eye and say yes to the messy glory

Open your arms to life! Let it strut into your heart in all its messy glory!

Looking outside of yourself for love and acceptance, leaves your happiness in the hands of others.