Quotes About Acceptance

I asked her if she'd ever wanted children. She told me, "Everybody doesn't get everything." It sounded depressing to me at the time, a statement of defeat. Now admitting it seems like the obvious and essential work of growing up. Everybody doesn't get everything: as natural and unavoidable as mortality.

People sometimes tells me that they're baffled by bisexuality. They are convinced that having sex with women is totally different from having sex with men. But it isn't. No more than having sex with anyone is totally different from having sex with anyone else.

If there will be a serious Palestinian prime minister who makes a 100 percent effort to end terrorism, then we can have peace. Each side has to take steps. If terror continues, there will not be an independent Palestinian state. Israel will not accept it, if terror continues.

Ring the bells that still can ring; forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Men jeg ville ikke spise, jeg kunne ikke heller – håndtaket var blitt for stort å bære, det styrte dagene mine fremdeles, styrte timene og ukene – alt bestemte dette håndtaket.

Men jeg ville ikke spise og bli stor og sterk. Jeg ville være liten og forsvinne – gå opp i ingenting.

People know me by the way I live my life, not by the labels I wear, and that means we can hold all sorts of conversations and learn from each other in a way that would not happen if there were the walls of ignorant prejudice between us. --Oisce

Throughout the years, I have found people are confused about my love for both Christianity and Paganism. I tell them what was revealed to me while I lay sleeping in the hospital. The All, whether perceived as a God, or a Goddess, or as one being, or even as an energy field, cares only about one thing: Love. Absolute and unconditional love. --High Priestess Enoch

I have learned a great deal from other Witches, Wiccans, Odinists, Voodoo and Hoodou practitioners, Druids and many others who consider themselves Pagan. The one common thread is that every single person has been nonjudgmental. Isn't this what it's all about, acceptance? Are we not here to design our own spiritual path? --Icinia

We all have different beliefs, ways of worshipping, and ideas about religion. I believe it is a very personal subject, and so everyone should respect each other's beliefs. I simply live my life, and if someone is uncomfortable with who I am or what I believe in, then I have found that I am better off not having them in my life. --Kristen Adams

Your true self is not necessarily the self you wish you could be; it is the self you actually are.

To each their own. One must live each day so that there are no regrets.

We are in training to be all right no matter what our experience is. This is not to say that there will not be countless times when we will judge the pain in our back or our breath - that is the nature of a wobbly mind - but we will increasingly see clearly that we do not want to go down this route.

It is what it is and it's okay. I'll be okay, you'll be okay, and the world will keep turning.

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.

The dead are lucky. They do not have to live with memories of what has been.

El que deba vivir que viva; el que deba caer que caiga. De aquí su remordimiento y tristeza.

But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.

I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.

I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.

I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.