Accepting Quote by Lucy Grealy
“I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. I thought I simply had to accept the fact that I was ugly, and that to feel despair about it was simply wrong.”
![“The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.” quote by Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/38c/soren-kierkegaard-578_common_the-most-common-despair-is-not-choosing_2448574.jpg)
![“Through [my friends] I discovered what it was to love people. There was an art to it...which was not really all that different from the love that is necessary in the making of art. It required the effort of always seeing them for themselves and not as I wished them to be...” quote by Lucy Grealy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dff/lucy-grealy-24985_art_through-my-friends-i-discovered-what-it_490515.jpg)
