Quotes About Acceptance

Actually, May have been thinking of something her mom had said. About how you didn't make friends, but let them happen.

I'm not myself," she offered, guilty. She softened around Tik Tok, and when she did she was, for those rare moments, girlish. He smiled. "You can never say that. You're just a piece of yourself right now that you don't like.

I was so nervous when I put my hand on his cheek and felt the scars and said, "You're a beautiful sight," and put my lips to his.

I'm not myself', she offered guiltily. ... He smiled. 'You can never say that. You're just a piece of yourself right now that you don't like.

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.

I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has it's own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PMS. You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

Are you mad?" I ask. "I was." He glances at the ceiling then back at me. "Or confused, anyway. The whole thing threw me through for a loop. I thought I'd finally met a guy at Underwood I could relate to, and it turns out he wasn't a guy at all." I swallow. "I can see how that would be weird." "In a way though, I was relieved." "Relieved?" I echo. "Why?" He looks around embarrased. "Let's just say you had me questioning my sexual orientation.

Las chicas deberían ser sólo quienes son, sabes. ¿Es demasiado pedir?

The changes we swear to fight off with savage claws in our twenties end up creeping over us like a rising tide in our thirties.

Summer estaba en lo cierto, después de todo: sería una increíble Titania. Si lo consigue ella, ¿a mí qué? Podría ser un Duende mejor, y eso podría ser más divertido de todos modos. Parezco una malvada andrógina ahora, con mi cabello corto. Probablemente sería un estupendo Duende, en realidad, ahora que lo pienso. ¿Quién dice que tengo que ser la Reina de las Hadas?

He realized that this tragedy was meant to be and knew intrinsically that from it there were life lessons to be learned by either her or those involved. Such was the way of life for humans.

A man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from.

People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

Death waits for us all. Nothing's forever. Life's about making the best of what you find along the way. A man who's not content with what he's got, well, more than likely he won't be content with what he hasn't.

As for being a good man,' and Glokta curled his lip, 'that ship sailed long ago, and I wasn't even there to wave it off.

A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond sufferance

Nothing had worked out the way he'd hoped. He should've expected it by now, maybe. After all, things never had before. And yet he kept on pissing into the wind. He was like a man whose door's too low, but instead of working out how to duck, keeps on smacking his head into the lintel every day of his miserable life. He wanted to feel sorry for himself, but he knew he deserved no better. A man can't do the things he'd done, and hope for happy endings.

The faster you run from the past, the faster it catches you. All you can do is turn to face it. Embrace it. Try and meet the future wiser for it.