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Quotes About Acceptance

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
~ Rumi
Marriage equality does not diminish the worth of your relationships; it simply recognises the worth of ours.
~ Penny Wong
I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man.
~ Rob Bell
A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.
~ Danish Proverb
The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.
~ Alice Walker
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."
~ Billy Graham
I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
~ Sade Adu
The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm an American for marriage equality. I believe that love comes in all different shapes, sizes, and colors. So whether you're LGBT or straight, your love is valid, beautiful, and an incredible gift.
~ Demi Lovato
I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
~ Andy Rooney
Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'
~ Jane Smiley
It's perhaps not the future I would choose. I still think it's possible to make a success of both marriage and career even though I didn't. But it's not a bad future. And I'm not afraid of it.
~ Barbara Stanwyck
When it is time to part, then it is time to part. There should be no regrets. The beauty of marriage is like the fleeting perfection of a snowflake.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.
~ Jack Kingston
Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
What this anger hides is grief ... the reality that his wife didn't value their marriage as much as he did. He realizes it was a mistake.
~ David Gill
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
~ Phyllis McGinley
Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.
~ Evan Wolfson
I love going to weddings. And I love it when my friends get married. I'm not against marriage but it's just not for me. I'm a vegetarian, but I don't have a problem if you want a hamburger.
~ Sarah Silverman
when you fall in love, you must fall in love with a man the way he is now, because marriage won't change anything, except maybe your tax deduction.
~ Kathie Lee Gifford
The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!
~ Jane Austen, Emma
Marriage - as well as erotic friendships and sexual liaisons -between members of contrasting races and religions will take place with greater frequency, and will be more accepted than it is today.
~ Herbert Otto Gille
We have a marriage of people of various cultures coming together. It's not a joke. It's real.
~ Stevie Wonder