Quotes About Acceptance

Then I caught myself foolishly imagining that gays might someday constitute a community rather than a diagnosis.

Once I accepted my extravagant mendicancy I stumbled upon the sober, intelligent little boy I had once been. This was the kid with the sweet smile and an interest in all sorts of things, the boy with brushed hair and cloudless eyes, the child so whole he could forget himself: the birthday boy.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

Gabriel, the man she might have tied the knot with except that it was not meant to be. Putting memories to sleep, like putting an animal down.

If I could feel like myself I'd thank God but I don't feel and never will.

Me temo, cariño —me dijo ella—, que ya no tienes edad para ser un maricón de los de antes.

Ay que ver qué Hola y qué Zara Home os estáis volviendo los maricones. Digo, los gays.

who tolerates, which is intolerable; who is kind, which is cruel; who understands, which is beyond comprehension...

MARTIN (Serious) Am I too young for Alzheimer's? STEVIE Probably. Isn't it nice to be too young for something?

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

Frankenstein is actually an equivalent of how a gay person feels growing up.

Having been fucked up by my family and community, I'll never know where my gayness came from, and where it ends and "neurosis" begins. But as a gay person I know I'm a vital element in our civilization.

Thank god I'm gay! It's so liberating!

According to the maxims of universal toleration, the Romans protected a superstition which they despised.

More and more, I think you should have no expectations and do everything for its own sake. That way you won't be hit in the head quite so frequently.

I tell myself not to remember the past, not to hope or fear for the future, and not to think in the present, a comprehensive program that will undoubtedly have very little success.

Q: What are your sexual preferences? A: Well, I'm neither one thing nor the other particularly. Q: Why not? A: I am fortunate in that I am apparently reasonably undersexed or something. I know people who lead really outrageous lives. I've never said that I was gay and I've never said that I wasn't. A lot of people would say that I wasn't because I never do anything about it. What I'm trying to say is that I am a person before I am anything else.

At first it gave me pain, And I felt my ears turn perfectly pink When your exclamation made me think We might never get down again! But now I believe it is wiser far To remain for ever just where we are.

Whoever said life has anything to do with what we want or don't want? Life's a gift, Cassie. Sometimes we have to give something back.

Celeste had no love for Henry either, but death had taken all his power and now she could afford a little bit of charity.

We have to deal with the world as it is, not as it should be," he would gently point out.

experience of love is that you get excited thinking that someone can mend your broken heart, and then you get angry when you realize that they can't. A certain economy creeps into the process and the jewelled daggers that used to pierce one's heart are replaced by ever-blunter penknives.

As Anne watched her, she could not help thinking of the age-old question every woman asks herself at some time or other: do I have to swallow it?