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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?
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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.
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Rebuilding of the self in and after depression requires love, insight, work, and, most of all, time.
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The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
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I look at the rates of suicide among gay teens. They are so, so high for suicide attempts and for completed suicides.
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I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.
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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.
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We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it.
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Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family.
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We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.
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If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.
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I hate the loss of diversity in the world, even though I sometimes get a little worn out by being that diversity.
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Despair is part of love.
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The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.
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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.
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We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.
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I don't believe that there is anyone of faith whose faith would not be strengthened by those experiences of family.
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I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
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There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin.
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I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.
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Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.
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Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.
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Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.
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I chose fat and functional over slender and miserable.
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As organs go, the brain is quite an important one, and its malfunctions should be addressed accordingly. Chemistry
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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.
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I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.
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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.
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Depression means that you have no point of view.
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To wage war on depression is to fight against oneself, and it is important to know that in advance of the battles.
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must love them for themselves,
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I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.
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Cleaving to our own lives, with all their challenges and limitations and particularities, is vital.
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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.
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The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.
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It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.
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I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
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The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.
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Being gay is immutable.
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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.
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Depression frequently destroys the power of mind over mood.
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The parental predisposition to love prevails in the most harrowing of circumstances.
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If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes ...
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People ... don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.
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Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.
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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.
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Love, no matter what.
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Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.
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With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.
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Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.
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No one had forewarned me, however, that if you live abroad any good while, the notion of home is permanently compromised.
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I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!
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Parents often confuse the anomaly of developing fast with the objective of developing profoundly.
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You lose the ability to trust anyone, to be touched, to grieve. Eventually, you are simply absent from yourself.
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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.
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It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.
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People who are different are constantly dealing with families who don't understand them.
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I realized that I had demanded that my parents accept me but had resisted accepting them.
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The things that save you are as frequently trivial as monumental.
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I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.
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There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf.
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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.
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I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand
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I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.
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Travel is a set of corrective lenses that helps focus the planet's blurred reality.
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The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.
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The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.
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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.
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The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.
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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.
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Perhaps depression can best be described as emotional pain that forces itself on us against our will, and then breaks free of its externals.
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Em unless you got the money to pay. Fred has been given a regimen of meds for HIV, but he stopped
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Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.
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Fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph.
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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.
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Mothering requires two impulses- the impulse to hold on, and the impulse to push away.
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There is no contradiction between loving someone and feeling burdened by that person; indeed, love tends to magnify the burden.
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Mental illness is real illness
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The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.
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When the child does not conform to this image, the parents often need help in adapting their behavior to the reality - they
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Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.
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I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.
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I have two nexuses of sadness about the Mormon Church. The first is the effect the Church's position on homosexuality has on Mormons.
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Every organization does good and bad things.
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It's not nature versus nurture. It's nurturing your nature.
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