Quotes About Acceptance

That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You take away her pretty and my plain and what you get underneath is about the same: a couple of lost girls looking to be found.

She's an old, close-to-the-ground, jelly-belly woman with bald patches showing through her wispy grey hair. It doesn't seem like she's got a lot going for her, but she's still smiling. Been around the sunflowers too long, I'd say.

See, it's all about Fate. Fate that I'm going to be a dead kid. Fate that you got tangled up with me. We're both stuck and all we can do is make the best of it.

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

"Don't worry about senility," my grandfather used to say. "When it hits you, you won't know it."

Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world...if you do so, you are insulting yourself.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

If I die tomorrow, next year or whenever it might be, I'll know I've had a great life.

I just want to make it clear first of all that I do not have the AIDS disease. I plan on being here for a long time. Life is going to go on for me and I'm going to be a happy man. But sometimes you're a little naive and think 'it's not going to happen to me. It only happens to other people.' But here I am saying that it can happen to anybody. Even me, Magic Johnson.

But if pressed, I'd have to say that what I love most about the subways of New York is what they do not do. One may spend a lifetime looking back—whether regretfully or wistfully, with shame or fondness or sorrow—and thinking how, given the chance, things might have been done differently. But when you enter a subway car and the doors close, you have no choice but to give yourself over to where it is headed. The subway only goes one way: forward.

Take each day as it comes, don't overthink it.

Let me tell you about gays in the military. I don't want any gay people hanging around me while I'm killing kids. I just don't want to see it.

Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.

True friends love one another, even though we're all a little quirky. We

No one who discovers who God has made him or her to be would want to be anyone else.

My cousin is an agoraphobic homosexual, which makes it kind of hard for him to come out of the closet.

The only response to a child's grave is to lie down before it and play dead.

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I agree'.

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

During his stay in the hospital Allen came to realize that modern society demanded one not necessarily be normal, but act normal.

I try to be available for life to happen to me