Quotes About Acceptance

It's wonderful to see parents come together and openly support their LGBTQ kids at my shows.

Coming to the Gold Coast and being able to live as an openly gay man is really important.

The States are more accommodating to fat people - there are more plus-sized clothing labels, and people talk openly about it.

The way I was raised, I didn't have a role model who was openly out.

An openly gay footballer would be exposed to abusive comments.

There are not actually many people in Finland who are openly gay together, let alone two women.

After growing up in a military family and going to an Evangelical Christian school, to look around and see lesbians and gay men of all ages and colors living their lives openly, it was awesome.

I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don't want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families.

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

My grandma, Nai Nai, has had the clothes she wants to be buried prepared since she was like 60. I guess there is an openness to discussing. It's part of life. It's part of the every day.

Maybe people don't understand my openness. In fact, if someone randomly comes and hugs me, I'd hug them right back. I am all for free hugs that make people happy.

Why am I sharing this part of my life when it opens me up to judgment? But part of me wants to share that part of my life because I think non-monogamy is a normal thing for human beings to want.

I can't open doors that aren't open. But if a door opens, I would be happy to walk through.

I learned that if we embrace what's happening, we are also embracing what is possible - and a road opens up for God to meet us halfway.

Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.

When you accept the way things are, there's really no other way to operate than the way you've been conditioned to. You live in America: you're free to vote, you go vote, and you continue to see the problems of being a nationalistic society. You don't really know what to do because you're conditioned to feel that's just the way things are.

I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

I read in 'Life' magazine that Asians had developed an operation to enlarge eyes, and I yearned to have this done. I wanted to dye my hair brown and to anglicize my name. Self-hate was the most terrible cost of the war years for me.

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

You can like or dislike me. You are entitled to form an opinion about me, and I don't fear being judged.

Someone will always have an opinion about you. Whatever you do won't ever be enough. So find something important to you. Find something that you love.

I am unapologetically myself, no matter what anyone's opinion is.

Everybody has to choose his or her own way to climb a mountain. I don't give an opinion. But there needs to be enough room for others.

I would never try to invalidate someone's opinion of something or the feelings something makes them feel.