Quotes About Acceptance

We have more patience for girls who act like boys than boys who act like girls. A tomboy is considered cute. One day she'll shuck her muddy jeans and put on a dress, and everyone will gasp at her beauty. They'll all laugh about her tree-climbing, frog-catching days. But there's no such tolerance for the boy who puts on a dress, who wants a toy kitchen or a baby doll to love.

wondering why people held on to anger and sadness, gripped it tight, let it dictate the course of their lives, but found it so hard to find and keep love.

Fear holds on. Love lets go. "Yes

But then again, we're all on death row, aren't we? Most of us just don't know it.

We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood?

Some things don't leave us. We just learn to live with them better.

counseling. She said that grief is not linear. It's not a slow progression forward toward healing, it's a zigzag, a terrible back-and-forth from devastated to okay until finally there are more okay patches and fewer devastated ones.

That's everyone. No one's perfect, and no one needs to be.

worked. But she could live with it. "So

Everyone has flaws, even if you can't see them.

God help you in America if you are not thin and fit, attractive, athletic, and coordinated, driven to win at any cost. God help you if you are broken or sad, or even just cerebral, or artistic, or just want to be left alone. You will be told in a million different ways—directly, subliminally—just how deficient you are. But nowhere will the message be

When you are able to embrace the reality that in any given moment you have everything you need, you'll find a way to be happy with what you have.

Kuh-laire, Is cam a fattening Girl Scout Cookie layered with peanut butter and a chocolate coating? No. Then dont make him a tagalong!

The Clique.... the only thing harder than getting in is staying in.

The Pretty Committee: the only thing harder than getting in, is staying in.

Viktor was swinging a leather duffle and wearing a black Adidas tracksuit and his favorite brown UGG slippers with a hole in the toe. Worn and old, just like Viv, he'd say when Frankie made fun of them, and then his wife would swat him on the arm. But Frankie knew he was just joking, because Viveka was the type of woman you wished was in a magazine just so you could stare at her violet-colored eyes and shiny black hair without being called a stalker or a freak.

And for a split second Cleo saw the value in living openly. Liberation was Windex for the soul. It let the light shine through. But why dwell? Nothing was ever going to change.

I'd rather be a friendless loser than have a bunch of friends who secretly hated me. (spoken by Massie Block)

The Clique... The only thing harder then getting in is staying in.

She's gay?" "No." Addie reached for the burnt bagel, took a bite. "But she is human.

Love is accepting someone for who they are, not who they'll be once you change them. Because guys won't change unless they want to, and most of them don't want to. If you think otherwise, you're in for a shit-storm of disappointment.

The Clique.... the only thing harder than getting in is saying goodbye.

God knows the hour of each person's passing. Whatever we did or didn't do for someone we loved, the timing of his or her departure was God's alone. Thy will be done is more than a prayer request. It's a forgone conclusion.

Will it take the rest of my life to process what has happened? I don't know. If Freddy were here, he would say, 'Yet', as per the rules of a playful accord we have concerning unacquired knowledge, whereby if one of us said they didn't know something, the other had to say 'Yet'. And then the other one--usually me--would provide the missing information, or we'd look it up, or just speculate.