Quotes About Acceptance

The randomness of cancer is often very hard to accept.

Fate is often like a canoe after you've lost your paddles.

Perdí años hasta llegar a entender que la vida no se vive en borrador y después se pasa, prolija y sin faltas de ortografía, al cuaderno de clase.

God's forgiven me. My wife's forgiven me. The department's forgiven me."

We all belong here equally...Just by being born onto the earth we are accepted and the earth supports us. We don't have to be especially good. We don't have to accomplish anything. We don't even have to be healthy.

There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.

You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that's not to say you shouldn't get more dogs and people in your life.

Sometimes it is good to have things happen to you outside of your control. There are parts of yourself you would never discover otherwise.

Did you get it back?" "Of coarse, the very next day. And even if I hadn't-because there have been things I've been asked to give up for good... Well, over the years here I've learned that sometimes a great loss is also a great gain." Under the slowly swirling freckles, Doc's face looked infinitely sad. Somehow I didn't find that reassuring.

The goal in meditation is not to exorcise the psyche of disturbing thoughts and emotions, nor to suppress them, but to hold them in non-reactive, friendly awareness. They may not necessarily disappear from the practitioner's psyche, but through consistent observing and witnessing of them, they cease to trouble him or her.

We too must remain faithful to the 'yes' we have given to the Lord's offer of friendship. We know that he will never abandon us. We know that he will always sustain us through the gifts of the Spirit. Mary accepted the Lord's' proposal' in our name. So let us turn to her and ask her to guide us as we struggle to remain faithful to the life-giving relationship God has established with each one of us.

As the trend in the ballots slowly made me realize that in a manner of speaking the guillotine would fall on me I started to feel quite dizzy. I thought that I had done my life's work and could now hope to live out my days in peace. I told the Lord with deep conviction, 'Don't do this to me. You have younger and better (candidates) who could take up this great task with a totally different energy and with different strength.' Evidently, this time he didn't listen to me.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.

There were books about how to be gay; he'd seen them in stores and libraries. Some of them even had diagrams. But there weren't any diagrams about how to fall in love with your best friend and not fuck everything up.

Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.

Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely.

Let the night come. We are not afraid.

It reminded me that illness will always be with you as long as life is with you. And tragedy will be with you too.

Because my illness at this stage has no cure, I can forever own this discomfort of the body. I can always say this was all a mistake. To find a home in my body is to tell a story that doesn't exist. I am a foreigner, but in ways that go much deeper than I thought, under the epidermis and into the blood cells.

My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later.

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.

There is no other road than the one we take, hard though it be. And no man outlives his weird. Best to meet it bravely, face to face.