Quotes About Acceptance

The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.

That's not pride. That's fear. Pride is being so certain in yourself that you're not intimidated by the strangeness of others. Pride is being so certain that you can look after yourself that you don't need to threaten or complain or make malicious whispers behind others' backs.

You stop asking questions, and you just... accept some smaller version of things. Of the truth.

She was theirs, in body if not in spirit. And yet she had abandoned them, after they had abandoned her. They valued what Kresnov was, but they did not value her. Nor did they value the others of her kind, her friends among them.

I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.

Wait," I say. "Aren't soulmates supposed to be perfect? What if you find yours and shes not a virgin, not even a girl? What if he's a fixer upper? What if he has an STD?

I know that I don't deserve you, but that's okay. Life's not fair.

Judge if you want. We are all going to die; I intend to deserve it.

You and I were meant to be together, even if we weren't meant to be happy.

Death is not the end. Death is the credits rolling. The movie was over a while ago.

The more things change, the more you still don't love me.

Love is stupid. Happiness is admitting we aren't better than stupid.

It must be nice, being perfect, but some of us have to live in this world.

We can see the mushroom cloud and we are going to die soon, no matter what we do or eat or say. I wish I had known this all along.

I love my puppy. I love that he is so young and full of life, and that he will still die first.

The reality, as I now see it, is that death happens, and that death often happens in ways that seem horrific. Refusing to eat meat does not stop that.

A thousand tiny imperfections can make a perfect life.

When you know you're worth loving, you can be a little imperfect. Hell, look at me—a lot imperfect. It makes all the difference in the world when you believe someone loves you enough that they don't overlook the spot and the messed up hair. They just add it to the things about you that make them love you all the more.

Accepting what people are, what they can't change and loving them with every part of yourself anyway. That's what love is about." He glared at Elaine. "You take that away from him, you make him believe that kind of love doesn't exist…It would be better for you to shoot him rather than destroy him inch by inch, year after year. If you do that, you're not saving his soul, you're killing it. If you'd look into his eyes for once, you'll see it. How we love is our soul.

Oh, for Christ's sake. Nothing is going to make your boy straight, Elaine. I didn't drag him into anything. But you're absolutely right. This is a battle for his soul, and while you may think I'm Lucifer, you sure as hell aren't God. This isn't about you or me. It's about the gift that defines his soul more than you or I will ever hope to do. If he doesn't have that for himself, neither of us will have anything.

See yourself the way I see you. Feel the way my hands touch you, think about the way I look at you. I see all of you, Thomas. You think I don't, but I do. Hide it, don't hide it, I know all of it, feel all of it. You're mine. Just let go. Let go and see it. I always have.

Maybe because when you feel like nothing, you can't believe someone who's everything could possibly see the real you.

I don't want to win the battle, Dana. I want to take the field, win the war. When I make love to you in this bed, it's going to be because you've accepted you're with the man and the Master you want for the rest of your life.

Thomas eyed the array of hair products on the corner of the tub and snorted. "God, I forget sometimes how gay you are.