Quotes About Acceptance

Troublesome as females are when they step out of their proper roles as connivers, manipulators, gossips, backstabbers, and bearers and nurturers of the young, slaughtering them is not an acceptable form of chastisement.

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

Not only are people created in the image of God, but all people are spiritually equal before God. More than anything else, this idea separated Judaism, which was a national or ethnic religion, from Christianity. Jews and Gentiles, men and women, slaves and free, Romans and barbarians, all were welcome in the church as equals.

Gracias por haberme hecho ser humano, podías haberme hecho rana o vaso, y habría que verme de rana gorda y cantando, o vaso de vidrio barato. Podías haberme hecho nube de paso o triste tortuga o lagarto y me hiciste poeta y despacio. Gracias por no haberme hecho legionario. Y además gracias por no soltarme de tu mano.

She breathed deeply of the freedom she found in Mattie's presence. Here she had no choice but to be herself. The carefully erected decoys she was constantly shuffling and changing to fit the situation were of no use here. Etta and Mattie went way back, a singular term that claimed co-knowledge of all the important events in their lives and almost all of the unimportant ones. And by rights of this possession, it tolerated no secrets.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

In our search for a son, we lost a daughter.

Your pants didn't get smaller, Mommy, I assured her. Your butt got bigger.

What was so wrong about the old me that now I have to be somebody else?

A paper chain can be done when it hits a certain number of links. But tolerance is a project you always have to keep working at.

Why is it so hard to understand that we have to find a way to live together?

Oh, we're not offended," Cassandra assured him. "We're just not men.

We can't change the past. All we can do is work hard to make things right in the future.

Down there, people would be relieved to know they're dead, and - and -' Her voice cracked. He stuck out his chin, daring her to say it. And what? And maybe we should be too, Amy blurted.

Why is it, he said faintly, that sooner or later, everybody we love dies?

I can't change the past.

As an animal lover, I never blame any living creature for doing what's in its nature.

I lost that feeling of belonging to something wonderful.

Absolutely missing in peer relationships are unconditional love and acceptance, the desire to nurture, the ability to extend oneself for the sake of the other, the willingness to sacrifice for the growth and development of the other.

The time we as parents and educators spend trying to teach our children social tolerance, acceptance, and etiquette would be much better invested in cultivating a connection with them. Children nurtured in traditional hierarchies of attachment are not nearly as susceptible to the spontaneous forces of tribalization. The social values we wish to inculcate can be transmitted only across existing lines of attachment.

is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?

Most young men, particularly attractive ones, have sexual relations with their own kind. I suppose this is news to those who believe in the two teams: straight, which is good and unalterable; queer, which is bad and unalterable unless it proves to be only a Preference, which must then, somehow, be reversed, if necessary by force.

There is no need for us to know what we cannot know. There is so much for us to deal with here.

She's my friend, the boy said simply. That's who she is and that's enough for me. As Minli looked at the buffalo boy, aglow with happiness against his poor surroundings, she saw it was enough for him. More than enough, as the smile that kept curling up on his face told her.