Love and Acceptance Quotes

My family is mostly a chosen one. I've managed to invite some really amazing people into my life and they become family. Brothers, sisters, siblings, mentors, role models. And I like to live that way, where your family bleeds out into the larger community.

It's no secret that I'm called to a different place, maybe, for some of the beliefs in the LGBTQ community because of my faith. With that said, I'm also called to be accepting and compassionate.

Life's too short to hate.

My mum thinks I'm amazing at everything. That unconditional love is just the most precious thing you can have.

Remember to let her into your heart.

I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.

A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.

I have not know a worthy son to whom his mother appeared ugly.

We were married for better or worse. I couldn't have done better, and she couldn't have done worse.

I think there is a great quote - and I feel horrible that I don't know who said this - but it was a great quote, it says, "The only difference between all of us are the ones who are loved and the ones who are not."

I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.

Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.

The inspiration behind '1950' was... gay history and the way that our people had to hide in public and how that affected the way that we love each other now.

The thing is, if you tell your story specifically enough, it becomes so universal. Just because you're a gay man singing an honest love song, people should know that it's about men and that they can still relate to it.

We can co-create this change. Spreading the word, learning to treat others with love, acceptance and forgiveness, and bravely stepping up to do our part... it's all part of the great dance of life. You don't have to sit back and wait for it. The most powerful gateway to the universe you have is the present. All the work of so many lifetimes is ultimately completed in a single instant - and you can choose whenever that will be.

Love means never having to say you're a zero.

Dare to love every person, including yourself. Become the energy of love.

That's what I wanted 'Pirate Jenny' to be: a queer, revolutionary fairy tale for the people that I love.

No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.

Who is it for us to tell other people who to love.

No child is taught to kill, but he has to be taught to love, respect, honor and value, not only his own life, but the lives of his classmates, parents and teachers. He has to experience love and acceptance. He has to know his life has purpose and meaning. No amount of money can do that.

When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.

Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.

My family, my wife, my kids - they love me no matter what is going on.

All the world loves a lover, and a lover loves all the world.