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At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?

If you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead. (Russian expression)

A crushed hope is suffused with a nobility that mere hopelessness can never know.

I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that gay people could not be parents.

A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.

Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.

The worst of depression lies in a present moment that cannot escape the past it idealizes or deplores.

Rebuilding of the self in and after depression requires love, insight, work, and, most of all, time.

The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.

I look at the rates of suicide among gay teens. They are so, so high for suicide attempts and for completed suicides.

I don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased.

I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it.

My goal is to stay safely in between self-analysis and self-destruction.

Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.

I hate the loss of diversity in the world, even though I sometimes get a little worn out by being that diversity.

Despair is part of love.

It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.

The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.

Oppression sometimes benefits its victims more than its perpetrators.

When describing children with Down's Syndrome, he called a child 'heart spontaneous'.

Grief is a humble angel who leaves you with strong, clear thoughts and a sense of your own depth. Depression is a demon who leaves you appalled.

As organs go, the brain is quite an important one, and its malfunctions should be addressed accordingly. Chemistry

Being gay is immutable.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

[P]laces that seem lovely at first glance may actually be sinister, but places that feel sinister seldom turn out to be lovely.

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

I chose fat and functional over slender and miserable.

Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.

Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.

I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.

I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.

Belonging is one of the things that makes life bearable, and it can be tough to look at a binary world and choose against both sides.

It is the aloneness within us made manifest, and it destroys not only connection to others but also the ability to be peacefully alone with oneself.

must love them for themselves,

Cleaving to our own lives, with all their challenges and limitations and particularities, is vital.

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.

The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.

The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.

There is no such thing as reproduction, only acts of production.

I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.

Depression frequently destroys the power of mind over mood.

I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.

Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.

If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes ...

People ... don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.

I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.

I don't understand what the nature of God is. But I do have the feeling that I'm at some feet, and lucky to be there.

Love, no matter what.

Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.

Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

No one had forewarned me, however, that if you live abroad any good while, the notion of home is permanently compromised.

I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!

Parents often confuse the anomaly of developing fast with the objective of developing profoundly.

You lose the ability to trust anyone, to be touched, to grieve. Eventually, you are simply absent from yourself.

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

It's not nature versus nurture. It's nurturing your nature.

It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.

People who are different are constantly dealing with families who don't understand them.

I realized that I had demanded that my parents accept me but had resisted accepting them.

The things that save you are as frequently trivial as monumental.

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf.

I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

Fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph.

In typical circumstances, to have children who won't care for you in your dotage is to be King Lear. Disability changes the reciprocity equation.

The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.

The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.

I'm sure that if we had enough sophistication, someone could look at what my changes in brain structure were as I came to feel more deeply in love.

The parental predisposition to love prevails in the most harrowing of circumstances.

The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.

Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.

Perhaps depression can best be described as emotional pain that forces itself on us against our will, and then breaks free of its externals.

Em unless you got the money to pay. Fred has been given a regimen of meds for HIV, but he stopped

Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.

Being gay is immutable. Maybe someday we'll figure out more of the science and it will be changeable, but we have no leads so far.

Travel is a set of corrective lenses that helps focus the planet's blurred reality.

Mothering requires two impulses- the impulse to hold on, and the impulse to push away.

There is no contradiction between loving someone and feeling burdened by that person; indeed, love tends to magnify the burden.

Mental illness is real illness

The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.

When the child does not conform to this image, the parents often need help in adapting their behavior to the reality - they

Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.

I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.

I have two nexuses of sadness about the Mormon Church. The first is the effect the Church's position on homosexuality has on Mormons.

Every organization does good and bad things.