Quotes About Acceptance

You may not be the person your mother wants you to

As the doctor said, When a fifty-eight-year-old man goes downtown dressed up in a Dale Evans cowgirl outfit, complete with a skirt with fringe, it's time...

No matter how many times Dena had tried to tell her, Sookie had never understood what a great gal she was on her own. She had been one of the funniest and best-liked girls on campus, but she had never quite believed it. Everybody seemed to love Sookie but Sookie. A

The American political system has lost the ability for large-scale compromise, and it has lost the ability to accept some pain now for much gain later on.

waga oya no / shinuru toki ni mo / he o kokite3 Even at the time When my father lay dying I still kept farting.

Some of us are made fat and some of us are made thin, and that's all there is to it.

Here's to those who have seen us at our best, and seen us at our worst, and can't tell the difference!

we are all flawed, fragile, cast-off china, collecting dust in the antique store that is life. The trick is finding someone who sees our worth despite the tiny, hairline cracks.

No dejemos que el odio amargue nuestras vidas.

Nos esforzamos por darle un sentido, una forma, un orden a la vida, y al final la vida hace con una lo que le da la gana.

Algún día no muy lejano pocos recordarán lo que pasó. — No te hagas mala sangre. Es ley de vida. Al final, siempre gana el olvido.

Son cosas que pasan. Lo único es que en la cárcel duelen más.

I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. A nearby field, a ray of sunlight, a little bit of calm along with a bit of bread, not to feel oppressed by the knowledge that I exist, not to demand anything from others, and not to have others demand anything from me - this was denied me, like the spare change we might deny a beggar not because we're mean-hearted but because we don't feel like unbuttoning our coat.

I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.

pg.9 In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.

Since we can't extract beauty from life, let's at least try to extract beauty from not being able to extract beauty from life.

En mi corazón hay una paz de angustia, y mi sosiego está hecho de resignación.

One needs a certain intellectual courage to recognize unflinchingly that one is no more than a scrap of humanity, a living abortion, a madman not yet crazy enough to be locked up; but, having recognized that, one needs even more spiritual courage to adapt oneself perfectly to one's destiny, to accept without rebellion, without resignation, without a single gesture or attempt at a gesture of protest, the elemental curse nature has laid upon one.

Nothing would bother me more than if they found me strange at the office. I like to revel in the irony that they don't find me at all strange. I like the hair shirt of being regarded by them as their equal. I like the crucifixion of being considered no different. THere are martyrdoms more subtle than those recorded for the saints and hermits. There are torments of our mental awareness as there are of the body and of desire. And in the former, as in the latter, there's a certain sensuality.....

Adoramos a perfeição, porque não a podemos ter; repugná-la-íamos, se a tivéssemos. O perfeito é desumano, porque o humano é imperfeito.

A nossa alma e o céu e a terra bastam-nos.     Querer mais é perder isto, e ser infeliz.

Primeiro estranha-se. Depois entranha-se.

There are pigs like me that wallow in their destiny, not drawing away from the banality of daily life because they're enthralled by their own impotence.

Chove. Que fiz eu da vida? Fiz o que ela fez de mim... De pensada, mal vivida... Triste de quem é assim!