Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

When I have kids, when I have a family and nieces and nephews, I'm gonna teach them to love more and be kinder and to not judge someone by the colour of their skin or any other thing.

I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.

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.

I was raised to believe you are supposed to love everybody.

Love is love, and people need to just accept that.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

There's nothing I love more in life than turning around a bigot.

I'm not against anybody. I'm really not. I'm not a hater. I'm not homophobic. I honestly don't care what people do personally in their individual lives.

For me, I grew up in a house doing charity work for homeless people, and my parents had a lot of homeless friends. We were always taught to not discriminate and not judge.

I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that just love who you wish and celebrate it the best you can.

We're all different. That's what makes us special. We have to love each other and get on with each other. It's not up to me to judge anybody.

My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.

I'm not homophobic, I'm not racist. I'm not against any people. All I have for people is love.

It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.

You can legislate against discrimination, but you can't legislate compassion, understanding and good will.

We need not think alike to love alike.

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

My idea of religion is we are supposed to bring people together. We are not supposed to judge other people.

Surround yourself with people who are going to support you regardless of what your sexual orientation is, and you can have a beautiful life filled with love.

I can love people of every gender identity and expression. It is the soul that captivates me.

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.

Anyone is welcome to hang out with me and have fun or sit down with me and talk. I don't discriminate against anyone. And I don't condone hating someone or treating them badly because they live differently than I do.

My music is about love, and I don't discriminate against any type of person.

I come from a family where we were taught to love and respect every community and religion.