Quotes About Acceptance

I don't believe in a country where it's more acceptable to see two men holding guns than two men holding hands.

There is an important distinction to be drawn between tolerance of homosexuality and tolerance of sex tourism.

When a bad thing happens, a terrible thing, you feel it all the time, but you don't have a choice after a while. You go on anyway. I never would have understood that before. It's something I would have been happy to live my whole life without understanding.

life is not a sequence/problem to solve it's a reality to face/experience

I take great comfort in the fact that they might kill me before things actually get worse.

That was my mother's policy: Feel free, feel welcome. Be happy.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

It's all very well to say that everyone is beautiful just the way they are, but the truth is that sometimes I feel fat and ugly and I want to hide away forever.

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

Bottom line: If you love yourself, it will all work out.

I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.

I think, that love endures, but that it isn't everything, and it isn't ever what we want it to be...

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

What will happen, will happen.

My name's Peter. Can I play too?

Some things can never be left behind.

was He … that turned His back on me. I will always have room … for God … in my heart." The minister began to pray.

There will never be an end to suffering. You do what you can, only what you can. Peace comes from knowing you helped those that you could.

Stop your weeping. Grief is for the dead.

But things don't always go the way folks want . . . or hope. Life ain't like that.

Silly man, no one is asking you to denounce anyone. Only to open your heart. To invite them all into your house.

freedom in its essence is the acceptance of the chains which suit you and for which you are suited, and of the harness in which you pull towards an end chosen and valued by yourself, and not imposed. It is not, and never can be, the absence of restrictions, obligations or law and of duty.

Grief:" You don't get over it you just get through it you don't get by it because you can't get around it it doesn't "get better" it just gets different every day . . . grief puts on a new face.