Quotes About Acceptance

Lord, if you can't make me thin - can you make all my friends fat?

If I am ever stuck on a respirator or a life support system, I definitely want to be unplugged but not until I get down to size eight.

Youth condemns; maturity condones.

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Do not inflict your will. Just give love. The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used.

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.

When you live next to the cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone.

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out; only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice; but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people were seldom lovable, but that I was not very lovable myself.

Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.

One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

There is no adequate defence, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated.

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.

When I was in high school, there weren't a lot of out gay actors playing gay roles. I didn't see myself represented truthfully in the media.

We are one people; we are only family. And when we finally accept these truths, then we will be able to fulfill Dr. King's dream to build a beloved community, a nation, and a world at peace with itself.

There are some truths to some of the stories, but a lot of it isn't - you just have got to let it go.

The kids you turn your backs on when you take away their stories are the ones who lose, as well as you as a community of adults who may appear to fear their truths.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

We don't have to have the same truths or personal belief systems to love one another and get along.

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

There are many hard truths that we must face in life.