acceptance

If you love someone, if you think you could make them happy for the rest of your life together, then nothing should stop you. You should be prepared to take them as they are and deal with the consequences. Relationships aren't neat and clean - they're ugly and messy, and they make almost no sense except to the two people in them. If you truly love someone, you accept the circumstances, you don't hide behind them

Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it__ a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over if you have the right materials, circumstances, and patience to repair it. If you don__, you__e always the one who feels the coldest when winter comes.

Every relationship that has hit a crossroads has asked, __hat is it that you want from me?

When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter end before doing the right thing.

There are only two ways to live your life. One as if all that matters is to have someone love and accept you. The other is as though loving and accepting another person is all that matters. Often, when you choose the second you get the first.

Every advantage is temporary.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering.

To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers.

Education is a change of mind, an acceptance, and an assimilation.

We Destroy Because We HateWe Hate Because We FearWe Fear Because We Don__ UnderstandWe Don__ Understand Because We Won__ LearnIlluminate your mind & Educate yourself!

I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.

The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life__ pain, the greater life__ reply.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Your words control your life, your progress, your results, even your mental and physical health. You cannot talk like a failure and expect to be successful.

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

Acceptance of ignorance (of reality) is the true knowledge path.

I have accepted that I don't know all the things that I ought to know, but I do know things that I need to know.