Quotes About Acceptance

Dream or nightmare, we have to live our experience as it is, and we have to live it awake.

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

We want to forget until we start to forget. from the poem Regret

It's a cat, but not racist.

Say what you want, but gay guys who've been where you are—there're a loyal breed of animal.

There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.

Love is always right.

He met failure as one day he would probably meet death, with cynical resentment and the courage of a solitary.

When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor.

A person who believes ... that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.

A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.

What do you mean, you "Don't believe in homosexuality"? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.

I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television.

Humour is the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life.

Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.

Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

If we love a person, we love him, and whatever he may do will not affect our love. It may cause us pain if he does evil, because we love him; it may cause us sorrow and suffering; but it cannot affect our love.

She could have made different choices, but all that mattered were the ones she'd made.

At some point you have to love in order to be lovable.

That's what therapy is for," Luc said. "No one's life is perfect. At some point you have to grow up and take responsibility for who you are and what you want.

A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself.

Growing up closes so many doors. The modern world doesn't allow for miracles, so we don't see them. It's a very precious gift, an open mind, but it's not passive. You've got to nurture it like a bed of roses; otherwise it will wither and die. Make sure you don't close off your mind to things you find strange. Sometimes they may be the only truth.