#acceptance

To love, and be loved, this is the greatest challenge that any of us face in our lives. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#acceptance-of-others #love #lovers-quarrel #relationship #self-acceptance

When the guy kissed her, Cassidy felt a stab of pain that was close to physical, and therefore within the penumbra of hurts he told himself he could bear. ↗

— John L. Parker Jr.

#heartbreak #love #pain #love

To hate the hate was just more hate; to reject the rejection was just more rejection; to judge the judging, just more judging. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#acceptance-of-oneself #enlightenment #love #overcoming-hatred #overcoming-negativity

No one will love you exactly the way you want them to-you just have to let them do their best. ↗

— Reddit

#love #tolerance #love

For twenty-one years, I have been paralyzed by the fear of what this society will do with me if they ever were to know of the thoughts that I continually push away. For more than two decades, I have made a choice to be straight. After all, it’s as easy as making a choice, isn’t it? This culture has made sure that I know that. Anyone who is anything other than straight was just someone deceived by the devil. He is unnatural. He is confused. He is mistaken. He is weak. He can control it if he desires to control it. Such a compelling and ongoing argument has been made that I have always trusted it. I believed that if I hid it long enough, and ran from it long enough, and refused to acknowledge it for long enough, I could indeed succeed at living up to their decrees. I believed that I could force myself to never be anything else. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#bisexuality #coming-out #homosexuality #love #pressure

The world is so obsessed with defining sexuality for everyone and attaching labels to it. Any time any person openly leaves the sexual norm, their sexuality becomes, more often than not, the absolute defining characteristic of that person. It becomes the first thing people think about and often the first thing they mention. Every other part of that person all but disappears. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#bisexuality #coming-out #homosexuality #love #pressure

Everyone has baggage, maybe we should help each other carry it. ↗

— Rob Liano

#baggage #caring #compassion #love #love

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#self-confidence #experience

That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out! ↗

— Robert McCloskey

#around #bag #because #book #everything

It wasn’t that everything was going my way, but I began to believe that the way it was going was perfect. I accepted that where I was in life, was exactly where I was supposed to be. ↗

— The Hippie

#believe-in-yourself #life