Quotes About Acceptance

Labels are for cans, not people.

hospitality, cosmopolitanism, and tolerance.

Through the persona we codify ourselves in a form which we hope will prove acceptable to others.

Above all else, never think you're not good enough.

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

Above all else, never think you're not good enough.

There are those from religious backgrounds who resist and oppose LGBT equality; some very obsessively and publicly. They make bold accusations and negative statements about gay and lesbian people, their supposed "lifestyle" and relationships. But when a son, daughter, brother, sister or close friend comes out it is no longer an "issue" it becomes a person. They realise everything they'd said was painfully targeted at someone they love. Then......everything changes.

Outing someone is like ripping a butterfly from its cocoon. You can damage them for life and rob them of THEIR life changing experience of liberation. For a successful emergence THEY have to struggle through the cocoon of fear and shame. THEN they can fly.

My morality and faith are choices. My sexual orientation however isn't.

The closet does have a benefit. It provides safety. Which at times is important. But remember, as long as you are in there, two other things will be too. Fear and shame.

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields — even to sadness.

Of course I'll hurt you. Of course you'll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.

Stop thinking. From the moment one enters the airport, one is subject to a host of procedures and mechanisms designed to get one from point A to point B. Stop thinking and be the cargo.

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.

lamentar las cosas no sirve de nada y resolverlas sirve de mucho.

Desde la debilidad se cede y desde la fortaleza se concede.

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all." - Marie Antoinette

the deep division that exists in the human race, regardless of any other more obvious distinction, between those for whom books are an obsession, and those who are prepared, good-humouredly enough, to tolerate their existence.

She saw that supreme dignity - and love - lay in tolerance.

When we experience physical or mental pain, the first thing to do is to acknowledge it and allow it to be there simply as a feeling that will pass. A popular and useful acronym to remember is RAIN: Recognise what is happening; Allow the experience to be there; Investigate with kindness; Non-identification. By doing this we can loosen the added layer of suffering and become better able to live with the pain.

In love, there is no criticism. In love, there is no rationality