Quotes About Acceptance

This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many other believers I know who seem to need explanations for everything.

I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe, how you live your life, it's not my place to judge. I don't have that power. I don't want that power. It's my place to love and to show God's love to other people, even if they don't live a life like I live.

To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the position I take.

We're all different. That's what makes us special. We have to love each other and get on with each other. It's not up to me to judge anybody.

I think I've been able to find happiness, and I've learned to love myself. That's a huge accomplishment for anyone, learning to love yourself.

I think it's so important to love who you are and be comfortable in your own skin.

If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose them. It's helpful when you get a dog to accept the fact that this dog is not going to be with you your whole life.

Everyone should be free to love whomever they choose.

It's best to love yourself. Only then can you love anyone else.

I believe that is what the God experience does for us. It calls us beyond our limits into the fullness of life - into a capacity to love people we are not taught to love - and into an ability to be who we are.

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

My mom and dad's friends were gay, and so I was raised with the acknowledgement to love one another, no matter one's sexual orientation.

I have come to accept the real me. I have come to love the real me. I now celebrate the real me.

I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.

I disagree with a couple of the stances of the Catholic Church. My older brother is gay, and it's important for me to be able to love him completely and freely, and it's important for me to spread beliefs in the world that are not going to limit people in their love. I can't support a religion that doesn't support my brother.

They say that every Jewish person is supposed to love one black person in his life. I'm glad Lorne Michaels chose me.

Later on in my life, it became a big theme: just being okay and comfortable to take the risk and to have really thick skin and realize not everybody is going to love your product. Get over it, and if you believe in it, keep going forward.

I want everybody to love me because I want to love back.

I can honestly say that I am open to love in any way. I guess that makes me bisexual.

I learned to find things to love about myself and to celebrate them.

As a married person myself, I don't know what it's like to be told I can't marry somebody I love and want to marry. I can't imagine how that must feel. I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people that we want to love.

We all have the right to be happy and to love someone without any inhibitions.

I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.