#acceptance

The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been. ↗

— Randall Terry

#always #america #been #community #ever

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy. ↗

— Tom Hayden

#avoid #centrist #controversies #democrats #distance

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#life #love #self-acceptance #self-esteem #wisdom

There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones. ↗

— Tim Roth

#british #films #just #kinds #more

When people learn to accept other people, anger and jealously wont exist ↗

— Alia

#anger

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16) ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#desire #expectations #fear #mystery #art

A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#failure #forgiveness #judgmentt #tragedy #art

Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#criticism-and-attitude #educate #attitude

I have learned to accept that, in the present moment at least, things are exactly as they are meant to be, and although I cannot control the future any more than I could control the wind and the weather, I can manage it and influence it in a positive way. ↗

— Roz Savage

#control #positive-attitude #attitude

It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#life #self-acceptance #inspirational