William T. Vollmann Quotes

I think if we open ourselves to all different kinds of men and all groups, we find a lot more opportunities to love.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.

Before you Judge me, Try hard to Love me

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.

I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality.

One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices.

In my heart, I really don't care who you love, same sex or not; as long as you have the ability to love, that's the important thing here.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

We need not think alike to love alike.

Try and understand--there are views other than yours.

I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.

To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

Love is something in the heart and in the mind, so why would you chastise anyone for that? And this is something that I feel very strongly about.

Countries we love will inevitably do things we don't like or fail to understand. The same goes for people.

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different. That's when fear dissipates, and that's when we can live the life that we're all supposed to be living.

I think for me, as a gay person, I can convince a lot more people to be for gay marriage by not screaming at them and berating them and embarrassing them and belittling them, but by showing them that we're all exactly the same.

Love is love. Let's take it any way we can get it.

There are many doors to the heart.