Quotes About Acceptance

Human beings need to feel that they are lovable and capable of loving.

Because we're human beings, we're not always going to be perfect.

Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.

I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me.

If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.

What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

If Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand something, it's not defeat. It's not even something he has to accept. It's merely a challenge he needs to engineer his way out of, and that includes human emotions and relationships.

I had never heard anyone doing what my show does, which is put the focus on the human condition - whatever you're going through, good or bad, right or wrong, straight or gay, whatever. That human experience is the meat of the show.

I needed to let go of the idea of a God who was mad at me for feeling how I was feeling. Now, I bask in an understanding of the divine that delights in truth and the complexities of the human experience - even when it's not very 'clean.'

Human nature being what it is, people don't want to acknowledge that a problem exists when they know they have 35 other problems to deal with.

A lot of time I fight guys and after a few rounds, they accept my dominance. They aren't fighting to win anymore. They're fighting to not lose. I've seen it many times. It's very hard for me to finish a guy like this. He doesn't want to get hurt. It's normal. It's human nature.

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

Gay rights are human rights.

Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.

Humanity does not come with citizenship or a green card.

One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is.

A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.

Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind.

I don't think that we really know our animals. We think we do because we're humans, and we think we can control things like that. We don't know anybody that we love. It could be a girlfriend or a cat. I think we just have to be at peace with that.

I'm not a lesbian. I just think that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes.

Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.

You have to accept your fate; do it without bitterness and stay humble.

The church can challenge society, but society also challenges the church. That's good. We should be humble enough to be able to accept that.

I look at myself, I compare myself to other people, but then I make myself humble. You know what? God created you this way. You're you.