Quotes About Acceptance

Pedí a las bailarinas que no se abochornaran por la sangre. Era la condición femenina expresándose en forma natural y bastaba de avergonzarse por ello. Debíamos mostrar —según matizaba Lucien— «aquello que nos negamos a ver, pero está ahí».

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.

When he looks at me, the way he looks at me... He does not know, what I lack... Or - how - I am incomplete. He sees me, for what I - am, as I am. He's happy - to see me. Every time. Every day.

She realizes that, down here, hate has no purpose. Down here, you embrace your foes until they become your friends. Down here, you seek not to be one being, but all beings, and all at once, God and Chemosh and everything in between. The change in her isn't only mental. It's physical, of skin and muscle. Yes, she has arrived. She is full. She is perfect.

If you believe that the natural world is good, then you must also accept its brutality.

By God, Giles thinks, it's true: They are not so different from each other. Giles might still, under the right light, bathed in the right water, be beautiful, too.

Zelda is black and fat. Yolanda is Mexican and homely. Antonio is a cross-eyed Dominican. Duane is of mixed race and has no teeth. Lucille is albino. Elisa is mute. To Fleming, they are all the same: unfit for other work and therefore easy to trust.

Saber a qué le tememos, es sabes quiénes somos.

we welcome all who are willing to follow we welcome the fish we welcome the birds we welcome the insects we welcome the four-legs we welcome the two-legs we welcome you /// come with us

Gus called Felix's name one last time, as though saying his name would snap him out of it, would miraculously bring Felix back… But Felix was no longer Felix. He was a vampire motherfucker.

She reaches out to him. To herself. There is no difference. She understands now. She holds him, he holds her, they hold each other, and all is dark, all is light, all is ugliness, all is beauty, all is pain, all is grief, all is never, all is forever.

Monsters are the patron saints of otherness.

He understands. He trusts. He, like she, has nothing left to lose.

Death is a lover to be feared and there was only one way to overcome that fear - by being her executioner.

Gained a wealth of knowledge, scars that I have earned. Challenge upon challenge, tomorrow is anew. Fear no longer feeds here, I live with no regrets

Why should one like you envy Yudhishthira? . . . Be content with what you have, stay with your own dharma—that is the way to happiness. —Dhritarashtra to Duryodhana, Mahabharata II.5.3, 61

Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

Nu, nu m? mai las batjocorit, nu mai vreau s? fiu juc?ria unei soarte incerte, f?r? nici o È›int?, care m? înal?? È™i m? împinge iar? în mocirl?, nu cumva s? nu înÈ›eleg deÈ™ert?ciunea a tot ce-i p?mântesc. Ca È™i cum n-o È™tiam demult - orice copil o È™tie, pân? È™i câinele de pe strad?!

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

Judgments accepted by crowds are merely judgments forced upon them and never judgments adopted after discussion.