Quotes About Acceptance

They all had them, dark secrets of the soul. The only way to deal with them was to live, and forget.

When you lose someone you care about, it's hard to accept that the universe doesn't notice the huge void.

He nuzzled her hair. "I've never been with a lady before. I don't know the rules." "Fortunately, I'm an unusual sort of woman. Mrs. Barrington did her best to change that, but she never succeeded, bless her." "Why should she want to change you?" Beth warmed. "My lord, I do believe you are the most flattering man of my acquaintance." Ian paused, his expression unreadable. "I state truths. You are perfect as you are.

All cubs were welcome anytime—no shame was attached. Why were cubs to blame if their parents were impatient?

For crissakes, Talia," Adam rumbled at her neck. "Let it come. I'm not afraid of the dark.

the way people treat shifters can be amusing." "Discrimination is never funny." "You're a righteous woman, Kim. I like that." "How can you just sit there?" "I usually sit when I'm drinking coffee. Or I mean against something. If I may on my back, it goes down the wrong way.

I loved and adored you, but I drained you like a thirsty man at a spring. I loved what you could give me - your admiration, your acceptance, your love, your forgiveness. I forgot to love you for yourself.

We don't fit in, you and me," he said. "We're both oddities no one knows what to do with. But we fit together." He took her hand, pressed her palm to his, then laced their fingers through each other's. "We fit.

I do not think of him as Lord Ian Mackenzie, aristocratic brother of a duke and well beyond my reach; not as the Mad Mackenzie, an eccentric people stare at and whisper about. To me, he is simply Ian.

A broken man learned to savor what he could when he had the opportunity.

For some people, they may categorize it as gay love. And for me, I simply see it as love. And theres no corner of the universe where love cannot abide and grow.

Man braucht nicht immer einen Plan. Manchmal reicht es schonn, wenn man ganz tief durchatmet, vertraut und loslässt.

That's the whole thing about grieving... It's part of the deal: You get to be alive and to love, but in exchange you also have to put in some serious hurt time.

i've found that letting something stay broken for a little while helps me understand it.

Now I lay facedown on the bed, sobbing for the woman who once slept here not knowing that someday one of her worst fears would come true

But if I can't change something, I don't waste energy on it.

I'm taking it day by day." I liked saying this. It was honest, short, and seemed to satisfy people.

What did we do those days, stuck at home, my sons might someday ask. We lived or tolerated living. We looked away from death.

Anna, falling in love with you was like coming home to a place I didn't realize I'd been missing all my life. You're the only person I've ever known who accepts me for who I am, right in this moment, faults and all, and isn't waiting for me to become someone else.

A quilt, like a family, doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be inclusive.

Darling, you must never become accustomed to the extraordinary and the outrageous. If you do, little by little, you'll learn to accept anything.

This helped me a lot," he said. What helped who a lot? I wondered as I stood beside the open door. "PFLAG?" Jason asked after I heard the sound of a book dropping on his desk. "Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. I heard you talking to the missus and … my brother was gay.

Logan is a Girl Scout?" he said, shaking his head in his hands. I nodded to confirm.

Look, Mother, I am never going to be thin. I'm Norwegian. If you wanted a thin daughter, you should not have married a man whose female ancestors carried cows home from the pasture