Quotes About Acceptance

I get this occasionally, the need to define myself as a something-or-other, and at various times in my life I have wondered if I´m a Goth, a homosexual, a Jew, a Catholic or a manic-depressive, wheter I am adopted, or have a hole in my heart, or possess the ability to move objects with the power of my mind, and have always, mostly regretfully, come to conclusion that I´m none of the above. The fact is I´m actually not ANYTHING.

grief is as much about regret for what you've never had as sadness for what you've lost. Anyway, we got through it somehow.

grief is as much about regret for what you've never had as sadness for what you've lost.

The great virtue of defeat, once accepted, is that it at least allows one to rest.

She could be breathing fire and I wouldn't mind. 'You could be breathing fire and I wouldn't mind,' I say.

And so the condemned man, presented with his final meal, is reminded that at least the cheesecake is delicious.

He had always imagined that some sort of emotional mental equipment was meant to arrive, when he was forty-five, say, or fifty, a kind of kit that would enable him to deal with the impending loss of a parent. If he were only in possession of this equipment, he would be just fine. He would be noble and selfless, wise and philosophical.

grief is as much about regret for what you've never had as sadness for what you've lost.

You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle

But none of this is a surprise. I've been expecting to watch you grow older ever since we met. Why should it trouble me?

Spending your time imagining what would have been if you could have changed some little thing, some little decision in your life, is counterproductive and leaves you unhappy. Think about how you can improve for the future, but don't waste your present thinking about how you could have changed the past

There is no panacea for this kind of loss. Just know that every day it gets the tiniest bit better-- suddenly one day you can put it in a different perspective.

Don't complain, and don't explain." That is, don't complain about your emotionally impoverished history to your parents, because they will never validate your perspective of your childhood. Second, don't explain your quiet withdrawal from the family scene. Simply slip away as gracefully as possible and concentrate your efforts at developing relationships with people who support and embrace you.

Make your church a context where parents know that the right response to their teenagers is never to reject them as human beings, never to throw them out.

Yet whether a culture condemns or accepts homosexuality, heterosexuality prevails and homosexuality survives.

It says something really terrible when the least safe place to deal with sexual orientation and identity issues is the Christian family and church.

my own beloved sister, who is dearer to me than words can say and who came out as a lesbian

That has excluded those who are unable to fulfill that prescription due to their sexual orientation.

There are millions of LGBTQ Christians.

To lose is to win.

They love me for what I'm not. They hate me for what I am.

The future, like the past, is written. It cannot be changed, but it can help to heal the wounds of the present.

No more dead dogs and slashed swans for us," whispered Dick Alderman, like this was good news- It wasn't.

But it's over. It's over and you know it- No League Championships. No FA Cups. No European Cups- The roar and the whistle. The applause and the adoration- Finished forever. Second best. Forever.