Quotes About Acceptance

Sin embargo no tardó en darse cuenta de que estaba en el charco de lágrimas que había llorado cuando medía nueve pies. - ¡Ojalá no hubiese llorado tanto! - dijo Alicia mientras nadaba de un lado al otro, tratando de encontrar la salida-. Supongo que ahora estoy sufriendo el castigo que merezco: ahogarme en mis propias lágrimas.

But I don't WANT to go among mad people!

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?

I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.

I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.

Instead, I try to adjust to the dawn, letting the tears fall where they may, because it is morning; it is morning and there is so much to see.

It's knowing I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.

People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

I want to ask him if it's possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?

But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark.

People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.

People aren't always what you want them to be

We are all unkind from time to time. We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.

The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were suppose to fall at their feet? Unacceptable.

I don't care. If I like somebody, I like her, and that's that." He thumped his chest and made a scowly face. "Let 'em come for me. I will stare down the mob with their pitchforks! I will make a speech about tolerance and love. I will tell them the folly of their ways! And then I will grab your hand and run like hell because, Jesus, a mob with pitchforks?

Maybe that's what real friendship is -- getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them.

There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?

True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.

I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father- The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl. He sounds bitter and sad. If the world will not forgive me, I say softly, I shall have to learn to forgive myself. He nods in understanding. And how will you marry? Or do you intend to marry? I think of Kartik, and tears threaten. I shall meet someone one day, as Mother found you.

I can be whatever. You can be whatever. We can be whatever. Whatever, together.

Evie didn't mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.