Accepting Friends Quotes

#1. As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.

Tammy Bruce

#2. Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly attitude to ourselves, accepting the hidden neurosis coming through.

Chogyam Trungpa

#3. My parents are kind and accepting. Because so many of my friends were gay, it was just an accepted thing in my house. I was very lucky.

Melissa McCarthy

#4. We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Thucydides

#5. You don't unconditionally adore your friends every moment of every day. They can unintentionally hurt your feelings, or make you mad, or upset you by doing something you consider totally inappropriate. You take what they dish out because accepting they're not perfect is part of a true friendship.

Linda Welch

#6. Falling in love can happen to complete strangers. Staying in love requires being best friends and that means accepting the person beneath the veneer.

Ellen Hopkins

#7. I have a lot of gay friends, and some have not come out, and ... it just hurts me that there are some people who can't feel like they can be themselves because society is not accepting to them. I literally see their happiness deprived.

Tia Mowry

#8. Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving ... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.

Alexander McCall Smith

#9. Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.

Oscar De La Renta

#10. For some of my friends who raise personal objections to marriage equality, they still recognize the importance of being accepting. And many of them also recognize that regardless of what they choose to believe or practice at home or at their church, that doesn't give them the right to discriminate.

Scott Fujita