Quotes About Acceptance

Think through the well-meaning motivations of both your Dictator and your Wild Child, until you really understand that within their limited perspectives they're doing their very best. Then offer them both kindness.

I said, Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.

God loves you. Yes, you made a mistake a long time ago. That's true . . . But somebody else took the truth and twisted it into shame. Your parents, your teachers, your friends. They made you believe their lies. You accepted their shame instead of God's love.

One of the biggest mistakes we can make is to start grieving over things that haven't even happened yet.

I'm not asking you to change your mind. Just bend your heart a little. Your mind will follow.

You've been looking for reasons instead of peace.

God is faithful. He will stick with you even when you won't. He will forgive you even when you can't. His mercies are brand new every morning. This morning, He wants to give this day to you, and all the rest of your days, too. All you have to do . . . is say yes.

The deal with multiculturalism is that the only culture you're allowed to disapprove of is your own.

I've got two backs, me - and I'm glad! Tits can be . . . mwa, I know, but they're always in the bloody road. Even in bed.

Death helps. Death gives us something to do. Because it's a full-time job looking the other way.

My calculations about how to stay alive and sane on this particular planet have clearly been at fault. Lots of people are plenty uglier and poorer than me without seeming to mind, without the self-hate and self-pity – the sentimentality, in a word – that makes me such a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude.

Is that why the parents of dead children spend half the rest of their lives in darkened rooms? Are they hoping the ghosts will return with all their original power? She

In bereavement, make yourself better, not bitter.

I think: you deserve to be what you are if you could bear to get that way. You must have seen it coming. And now there's nothing for you here.

I try to like the way the world is changing, but there seems to be no extra room for me inside.

Durante años me pasé diciendo lo mismo, o cosas peores. Porque me sentía abandonado, aunque ella no hubiera podido evitarlo, muriera o no. Me ayuda oír sus palabras, porque compruebo lo estúpidas y venenosas que son. Sobre todo estúpidas.

There's even less acceptance of bisexuality than homosexuality. Binary thinking still holds strong sway with the general population, and the exclusive homosexual is more understandable to the average person than is an individual who wanders the Kinsey scale with apparent—and alarming—abandon.

We take you at your word: you are like us; now that we've 'let you in,' we expect that in your gratitude you won't pull any surprises and start behaving like some subspecies that you've assured us you're not; if we now say it's OK to be gay, we don't expect you to pull the rug out from under us and start acting queer .

These days, especially within queer theory's hallowed halls, sexual "fluidity" has become something of a talisman for personal authenticity.

The main goal here is to make ourselves "familiar enough" to straight people to win their acceptance. But why should that be of paramount importance? Precisely why would we want to do ourselves over in their image? To become more like them would be to forget our own singular history and the special insights and perspectives that derive from it, giving us, as spies in the culture, a unique perspective for evaluating and critiquing aspects of mainstream culture.

My life has been a pleasant one and though I should regret to leave it, it would be a regret that perhaps I should never know.

Ei accept? numai ceea ce tocmai le iese în cale, ceea ce îi m?guleÅŸte ÅŸi le este cunoscut. Sunt asemenea câinilor: "C?ci câinii latr? ÅŸi ei la toÅ£i cei pe care nu-i cunosc".

Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection. I had hoped that the white moderate would