Francesca Lia Block Quotes

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.

The thing that is most conducive of that better life for all is love, acceptance, understanding and being yourself.

I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.

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.

I hate nobody.

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.

We do not judge the people we love.

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.

I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.

I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.

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

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.

I think it's all about people loving each other and having compassion, accepting one another and educating themselves.

It makes no difference to my family where one comes from as long as we make each other happy. They are pretty cool like that.

We don't have to have the same truths or personal belief systems to love one another and get along.

There are people who try to judge. I'm cool with that. I don't care what nobody say - the only thing that can defeat hate is love.

I don't despise anyone. It's definitely all about the love.

You do not have to agree with me to love me.

You don't have to read the Quran to love me... love the actions, love the things that I do. Look at those, and that will help people get beyond whatever fear or stereotypical thing that they might be thinking about.

I've been very encouraged by the nature of the conversations that I've had and by the lack of questions that are tunnel-visioned in their understanding of sexuality and life and love.

I'm very, very open. I don't really have a specific taste that I go for, just someone who gets it and is just fun and happy to be around and is proud of me is the No. 1 thing.

If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.

Basically, we are all different and we all have something to learn and it doesn't mean people need to change who you are but one should be open to new things and, above all, tolerance and understanding are essential for growth and happiness.