Quotes About Acceptance

Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.

I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.

You know what I hate most of all in the whole wide world?...More than people who think that if you're bisexual it means you'll fuck absolutely anyone (especially them)?

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I am!

I don't understand this but I never felt any shame about my sexuality and the idea that I found boys attractive as well as girls

Here my advice to young gay person or actor its to be yourself and not to be pressured into what other people want you to be

All I know is that I am the product of all the experiences I have had, good and bad, and if I am in a happy place in my life (as I truly am), then I can have no regrets about any of the combination of events and circumstances that have led me to the here and now.

Sometimes the worst thing about change is the shock of the change itself and not actually the new circumstances.

Go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly, you will be okay.

go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

the best way to heal it is to admit it will always be there.

Sorrow is an inseparable dimension of our human experience. We suffer after a loss because we are human. And in our suffering, we are transformed.

You may have heard that your grief journey's end will come when you resolve, or recover from, your grief. But your journey will never end. Soften, yes, but end, no. People do not "get over" the death of a pet.

Spiritual victory is not something you earn - it is something you accept. The Christian life is not so much about what you have done - it's about what Christ has done. It's not so much about how strong you are - it's about how strong God is.

I'm not afraid of the dark I know. It's the dark I don't that terrifies me.

The peer feedback she gives them is, Look in the mirror. I've got to tell you, you are not what Hitler meant by a master race.

Always seek to allow others the space to be imperfect.

The one and only skill that resolves the crisis of meaning is that of acceptance.

We made ourselves more acceptable to others in a variety of ways. Perhaps you learned that you could win approval by becoming more sensitive than the other boys. Maybe you learned that you could win approval by displaying a creativity that the other boys refused to show, or you learned to win approval by excelling at everything you did.

the deeply held, sinister belief that perhaps HIV is physical evidence of our own unloveableness.

We've all been there, that deserted island called regret.

To accept God's free gift of righteousness also means at the same time to accept a new lordship over the life.

when at last they'd had to admit to themselves that they'd made all the love they could, had been a last meal. Like