Quotes About Acceptance

Jesus, you are hereby officially welcomed into me. Now only action will reveal your effect on me.

You can have everything you want, but accompanied by pain, until you learn not to want anything.

The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don't choose this.

What happened to Love comes in all kinds of packages?" "Some packages are wrapped in brown paper and go tick, tick, tick. Those you throw over a bad neighbor's fence.

It's not until a woman gets loose and comfortable inside her own skin that she's comfortable wrapping it around a man." Mina

Labels make death and disease easier to handle. They apply makeup to tragedy's face.

I write to make peace with the things I cannot control.

What's the point of flinching? Whatever is coming comes anyway.

Where is the good in goodbye?

If you've done the best you can-if you have done what you had to do -there is no use worrying about it because nothing can change it .........and you have to be fresh for the next day. What you're going to do is more important than what you have done.

I couldn't help thinking, with the required pinch of rue and regret, how different my life would have been if I had been born homosexual in 1950 instead of...But that's a tiresome game, and I'm too old to play it.

Each homosexual must, of course, come out at his own time and in his own way, but homosexuals, the older as well as the younger, the ones in Brooks Brothers suits as well as those in black turtleneck sweaters have, I think, an obligation to declare themselves whenever they decently can.

Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you'd like them to be, although often they turn out the same

And they say that there is no intimacy unless there is mutual acceptance and mutual trust, no matter whatever else there is, and I would side with them.

The weirdest stuff in the world is certainly to don't love and don't know how to love, that's why others can not be a reason to don't love

Some people know that they are so adorable looking, all they have to do is smile and dress up and they get plenty from that. Then there are some of us who, early on, see that that doesn't work. So we joke about it.

everybody was a lady—the fish lady, the yam lady, the store lady, the teacher lady'.6 She noticed, however, many instances of self-contempt. 'When I was a child,' she said, 'nearly everything about us was bad, you know; they would tell yuh seh yuh have bad hair, that black people bad… and that the language yuh talk was bad. And I know that a lot of people I knew were not bad at all, they were nice people and they talked this language.'7

She never asked for too much. She just wanted to be ordinary.

Ne gun?am i ne žalim se (ne znam zašto bih), a ljudi se ?ude i kao da im je krivo što sam ja miran i veseo. A ja se njima ?udim što gube vrijeme na nerazumnosti, bolje bi im bilo da žive. Ali im to ne kažem, ljudi ne vole kad im se govori istina. I žalim ih što se optere?uju nevoljama bez kojih bi mogli da budu. Dosta nam je nevolja bez kojih se ne može.

Ne bojim se ljubavi. Bojim se rizika. I zavisnosti. I moguceg bola. Podrzavam u sebi spremnost na odstupanje. Da ne bude gore." —

My point is that when you fall in love it's with a real person with flaws. Not with a perfect character from a fairy tale.