Quotes About Acceptance

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

If we accept the unacceptable today, what's the outlook for tomorrow going to be?

At my age flowers scare me.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

c. "So, hunny, don't waste your time trying to label or define me…'cause I'm not what I was ten years ago or ten minutes ago. I'm all of that and then some. And whereas I can't live inside yesterday's pain, I can't live without it.

What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.

I'm always relieved when someone delivers a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black.

It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man.

Things will be alright. People need to hear that. Life is good, just as it is. There isn't anything that I would change about my life.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

The reliable presence of people who love us facilitates our perception and toleration of painful reality and enriches our lives.

But one way or another we all have to come to terms with our own sexuality, and the ways that we do (and don't) will end up shaping our lives.

we need to accept and welcome the fact that the church has not been given a single "authorized biography" of Jesus but four canonical Gospels, related and yet different, as complementary witnesses to the truth about Jesus. To do justice to such a revelation, it is important that we listen to each witness individually as well as to all together.