Quotes About Acceptance

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

There are no girl books. There are no boy books. There are just books.

SPENCE, THAT DOUR, IMPOSING LADY EAST OF LONDON, has grown a friendly face in my absence. I've never been so happy to see a place in all my sixteen years. Even the gargoyles have lost their fierceness. They are like wayward pets who haven't the sense to come in from the roof and so we let them live there, glaring but cheerful.

For the last time, I'm not a witch." Miss Lillian smiled and patted Theta's cheek. "Keep telling yourself that, dear.

The hand you hold the longest is your own.

People will disappoint you, Gemma. The question to ask is whether you can learn to live with the disappointment and move on.

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

People will be who they are, and there is not enough magic in any world to change that.

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

At first, I was scared to be alone. No routines. No rules. Just me. But I think... Taylor wiped a tear away. I think I was always in the jungle. Before. It was always there. I think I had to come out here to find the answer. And what did you find? I love myself. They make it so hard for us to love ourselves. Taylor stared off into the dark. Her face gleamed with tears. Snot ran over her lips. The judges won't like that answer. Nobody's judging you. Taylor choked on a sob. Always, she whispered.

Theta sat next to Memphis and watched Mr. and Mrs. Chan laughing about some private joke. They were a mixed couple, and they were happy. No one seemed to be bothering them. But they were also here in the few blocks of Chinatown. What happened when they crossed Canal Street into the rest of the city? What happened when they went out into the rest of the country?

You're perfect just the way you are...is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.

it stung, too, knowing that it was easier for his father to erase his only son's existence than it was for him to tolerate the disappointment of who his son really was.

There is strength in acceptance

I think being friends with you will be challenging, he said at last. 'Will be challenging'? Henry shrugged. I guess you're stuck with me now, Miss Chan. I apologize in advance.

People will disappoint you. The question to ask is whether you can learn to live with the disappointment and move on.

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

Sometimes, sickness came on like the flood itself, with no way to hold it back. But other times, sickness came about because of the carelessness and unfairness of the world.

I'm not really sure what I am at all anymore. We're not just sashes and states, Nicole said on a sigh. Or gender, Petra murmured. Or bodies. I'm sort of everything all at once, Nicole whispered. And then they were silent, lost to dreaming.

Like, it's so much pressure all the time and if you get upset or angry, people say, 'Are you on the rag or something?' And it's like I want to say, 'No. I'm just pissed off right now. Can't I just be pissed off? How come that's not okay for me?

A Evie le daba igual que le gritaran, pero odiaba sentirse juzgada. La irritaba, y hacía que se sintiera pequeña, fea y sin arreglo.

People had to be who they were. The challenge was to love them for it. And to be honest when they'd hurt you. To apologize when you'd hurt them. It seemed pretty simple on the face of it. So why was it always so hard?

Apple barn's better'n a pig barn," they chortled over coffee mugs in the cafés. After four years they had become accustomed to the sight of Mr. Q's oversize moustache with its melancholy droop. They no longer questioned the unorthodox W in the spelling of Qwilleran. And most of them now accepted the fact that the middle-aged divorced bachelor chose to live alone—with two cats!

Some women who married and also had lesbian relationships were genuinely bisexual. Many others married because they could see no other viable choice in the day.