Love And Acceptance Quotes

“I will not stop living my queerness out loud.
I will not stop raining my good queer love down on the world until we all have a seat at the table.

Until expressions of love and identity are met with the wonder with which we should meet all evidence of goodness in a world as harsh and lonely as this one can be.

Until the glitter of generations of fragmented hearts just like mine are finally welcomed all the way home.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“We are afraid that our failures will mean that we will not be loved. But we don’t earn love. How we treat others does, of course, affect our relationships. I do not want to be near the man who beat me. I do not trust a friend who has repeatedly lied to me. But we are loved for who we are, not for what we do. Love is larger than what we do. Love moves through us, if we let it.
One day I realized that I could love someone and still decide to separate myself from them if our behaviour together was repeatedly damaging to each other. I did not have to stop loving him. And if I love another for who she is, not because she earns my love with her actions, and the same must also be true for those who love me. This isn’t a license to treat those who love us badly, but it helps us step off the endless treadmill of doing for others, trying to be what we think they want us to be, in an attempt to earn their love. It doesn’t work: we can’t earn love.”
― Oriah Mountain Dreamer, The Invitation

“Real love celebrates the other person as him/herself; it does not demand that they follow a script.”
― Pamela Cox