Quotes About Acceptance

Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.

Piangendo [...] ci si pulisce meglio che tuffandosi nel lago più puro. Si posa il fardello sul marciapiede del binario d'arrivo.

And then she said, "that's what love is. Still loving someone, in spite of knowing the bad things.

Quem na lama quer remexer, que lama seja.

Förr hade jag hemliga drömmar att det vore möjligt att lägga ihop allting, så att allting blev färdigt, tillslutet. Att till sist kunna säga: så var det, det var så det gick till, detta är hela historien. Men det vore ju mot bättre vetande.

when it came to dying, I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing was impossible to grasp and therefore really nothing to be scared of, but the dying itself I could comprehend, the very instant when you know that now comes what you have always feared, and you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember.

you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember.

But what I found out that summer . . . was that I could swallow whatever hit me and let it sink as if nothing had happened. So I mimicked a game that meant nothing to me now, I was going through the motions, and then it looked as if what I was doing had a purpose, but it did not.

I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing was impossible to grasp and therefore nothing really to be scared of, but the dying itself I could comprehend, the very instant when you know that now comes what you have always feared, and you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember.

It's okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway.

It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

It's not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past

Contrary to a great number of priests and other godly types, queer does not mean castrated.

Falling in love with another man is like falling into a vast vat of yourself. For some men this is ultimately nourishing, for others . . . it is drowning.

Gays feel about popularity the same way teenage girls do. Is it that we really want friends we can count on, or do we just want guys around us whom we can share our curlers with?

Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous.

We think of death and loss as tragic twins, but in fact it is loss that hurts us.

Where does all the pain go once you're done with the healing?

The people that Love You LOVE YOU---and the people that Don't Never Will.

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

Redemption is overrated.

You've lost sight of the fact that it is our weeniness that makes us human!

We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.