Quotes About Acceptance

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.

It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.

Whenever anything went wrong in my life, my mother would say, "All things happen for the best." And I'd ask, "Who's best?" And she'd say, "Gotta go."

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

I just took the box and nodded, because that's how you treat crazy people. You nod and count down twenty-seven days for crazy to come to an end.

I didn't want to say Big Ma was right. Cecile was no kind of mother. Cecile didn't want us. Cecile was crazy. I didn't have to.

She refused to call Fern by her name, and that made Big Ma right about Cecile.

Thank goodness you can't see cherries in a chocolate bar. I'd have been a red-faced rose if not for my Hershey brown complexion

The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou and The Outsiders

hypothetical, because, as Kafka shows, success within an institution requires one to accept its rules, including its system of hierarchy, so that anything different becomes intolerable, even unthinkable. Josef K. is the supreme example of a professional man committed to order. His arrest

I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.

For any one group to be free, everyone needs to be free no one should be stopped-not by stereotyping, not by violence-from expressing his or her full range of emotions and abilities.

Good day, be grateful. Bad day, be graceful. Be grateful, be graceful, and on it goes.

Come, come, whoever you are . . . Come, even if you have broken your vows A hundred times, Come, come again, come. —RUMI

Before deciding on a decision, determine how well you are willing to live with it.

Each time our heart is broken, we should learn a lesson and not repeat the same mistakes. However, often there is nothing we could have done to save the relationship.

Relationships sometimes break like a falling vase into fifty pieces. And when you glue the vase back together, you realize it has lost the luster and pristine appearance that will never return. Now you have two choices. Keep it as it is or throw it away.

Some doors slammed in your face need to be glued and nailed shut so they can never be reopened.

The past is behind you and there is nothing you can do to change it. However, you are in total control of your future.