Quotes About Acceptance

She'll take anything. Even the network whose name we don't speak, if you know what I mean.

Oh my God… we're some sort of gay enforcement squad!

Theres nothing sexy about skin and Bone, Urgh, you gotta have some junk in the trunk

as much as I like the past not to excist but it still does

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

I already lost everything, what's there to hide?

Sometimes we don't question things. Sometimes we just accept them. That's faith, Piper, and that's what's required here.

You have to discard your own stereotypes. Remember, there's no such thing as normal.

David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take our own lives before we become a burden. I'm not advocating suicide, oh wait, I guess I am.

I'm drawn to people who look different. I'm not exploiting. I'm not making fun of them. I'm drawn to them.

Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.

Halter and Leash Training Like crate training, you need patience to get your kitten to accept the halter and leash. Use similar steps to help him learn there's nothing to fear and it offers a benefit for him.

While dissatisfaction implies either rejection or frustrated pursuit of satisfaction, unsatisfaction is something more like acceptance combined with anticipation. It is acknowledgement of desire without the demand that it be satisfied--a kind of openness that doesn't ask for closure. It is desire that can live with deferral, an embrace of the God-shaped vacuum in us and a commitment to stop trying to make it full, a healthy hunger that is content to wait for the feast.

Her desire for him had been so great that she had been willing to accept a kind of lumpy half-love, flawed, temporal, and incomplete.

Labels are for cans,' they say. If they do try a name on for size, 'queer' or 'dyke' or 'fag,' they rip it off the next day.

I can't tell you who he is. Why would I presume to know? I'm not Gay Yoda.

Where the years ahead had once seemed vague and unknowable, amorphous in shape and indeterminable in size, after my mother died I began to see a set of decades stacked neatly in front of me like bricks...When I allowed myself to think of the brevity of the time ahead of me, and the futility of spending any more of it on cooking and mending and gardening, it frightened me so much that I almost couldn't breathe.

That night they sat up well past dark around the dim flame of a single gas lamp, knowing, I suppose, that going to bed would be an admission that there was no ordinary, everyday explanation for my disappearance, and that when they awoke in the morning, they would have passed into some new era in their lives — the era that began with the unexplained loss of one of their own, and whatever that might mean next for them.

The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions. —L. H. BAILEY, Manual of Gardening, 1910

Don't bother fighting with your husband over something he's never actually going to do. He'll give up on his own eventually, and then you don't have to be the bad guy.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.