Quotes About Acceptance

So many gay men are mothers to so many young people, me included. I've had gay men who were more mother to me than my own mother ever was.

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

There are two kinds of 'disabled' persons: Those who dwell on what they have lost and those who concentrate on what they have left.

Faced with parts of ourselves that we do not recognize, would like perhaps not to recognize, we deny the kinship, and often lean away from the new and into the old, accentuating the familiar qualities that complement the strange new ones.

But it was many years before he could understand that that sensitive and feminine person, bound to him by the secret and terrible bonds of his own dishonor, had in him nothing perverse, nothing unnatural, nothing degenerate. He was as much like a woman as a man. That was all. There is no place among the Boy Scouts for the androgyne—it must go to Parnassus.

could it be said of her that she had been promiscuous? No, that could not be said of her. For she had been as free as air, and one does not qualify the general atmosphere with such a paltry adjective as "promiscuous." She had just slept with everybody—with white, black, yellow, pink, green, or purple—but she had never been promiscuous.

You can't go home again.

My dear, dear girl, he said gently as she tried to speak, we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot, our bodies young. We are a flash of fire--a brain, a heart, a spirit. And we are three cents worth of lime and iron--which we cannot get back.

If one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it. -p162

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

Never saw so many peaceful wrecks in my life.... That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.

Let her be. So all that is in her will not bloom—but in how many does it? There is still enough left to live by.

And in that one grey hair I saw my whole life and I said I think I need a hair.

Minister: Welcome, brother! Do you reject Satan and all his works? Bunny Breckinridge: Sure.

I had learned at last to not project my darkness onto those around me;

There didn't seem to be that much to say. If you loved Phoebe now, it was going to hurt you to see her. Like facing cold water, you just jumped in and swam anyway.

Inside this new love, die. Your way begins on the other side…. Die, and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. The speechless full moon comes out now. —RUMI

Perhaps you like to torture yourself by trying on some jeans from a few years ago to see if you can button them. Clothes do not exist to humiliate their owners. Please do not force garments into performing psychological tasks for which they were not designed.

The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.

The complexity of the society we have created for ourselves envelops us so completely that, instead of being dizzied, we take it for granted.

and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgement. And that is

Children feel secure when they know they are accepted as they are. Let me qualify this before we clarify it. There are attitudes our children might develop that we never have to accept. Selfishness, disrespect, deceit, and any other sinful action does not have to be condoned or tolerated. Just as in our relationship with God, He may love us when we are sinful, but He doesn't ignore our sin. Just

the number-one cause of an anxious heart is unresolved disappointment in others.

It was in God's grace that Paul figured out how to feel secure, significant, and strong. His personal weaknesses and points of vulnerability weren't removed, but he had the necessary grace to face them and accept them.