Quotes About Acceptance

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself

Give others freedom to be themselves. Appreciate the differences between their ways an yours.

I love people who freely express themselves and give others the space and courage to express themselves too.

I might not be the same but that's not important. No freedom til we're equal. Damn right I support it.

The best relationship is one in which you feel free to show even your negative side and still have the hope that it will strengthen your relationship.

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.

When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin¦ Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because ¦ of the color of your skin.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within

When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.

True intimacy is the experience of real acceptance and authentic vulnerability without feeling the need to apologize or fear rejection. The freedom to just be and know it's all good.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Life is like a very long TV show, without a remote control.

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only its all a little bit lower.

Age attacks when we least expect it.

Don`t think of yourself as an ugly person. Think of yourself as a beautiful monkey.

Life isn't a Burger King. You can't always have it your way.

If Tumblr and Twitter were school subjects, my parents would love me.

When I'm stalking my exes on Facebook, sometimes I think, 'I should have never let her go.'...but most times I think, 'She really let herself go.'

I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.

You can always tell a real friend: When you make a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

I've developed a new philosophy...I only dread one day at a time.

I dont fear death, but I sure dont like those three-footers for par.

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig.