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“What's more, the kaleidoscopic blend of gender-variant and gender-typical traits that characterizes gay people is exactly what enables us to make our own unique contributions to society. It's the reason that we should be valued, celebrated, and welcomed into society rather than merely being tolerated. The aim should be to foster acceptance of gay people as we are, in all our rich diversity and not to seek acceptance by shoe-horning ourselves into conformity with the straight majority.”

Book:Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation

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Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation

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Simon LeVay

Simon LeVay is a renowned neuroscientist born on August 28, 1943. His research in the field of neuroscience, particularly on the relationship between brain structure and gender differences, has had a profound impact on the scientific community. more

“I know inside that there is more to life than this mortal coil. It's a very shallow minded person who thinks that someone is born and dies and that's it. I haven't gone through thirty odd years of suffering, and doing what I do, and looking at other people who are born and die with cancer, with AIDS, with whatever, and think, 'well, what was the point of that?'. There is a point to everything, and we're here to learn, and it's just a learning curve and we'll move on, and this is just a shell. It's just I've got a dodgy shell.”

Death Acceptance Disease

Author:Jonny Kennedy

“Where there seems to be no hope, hold on to a hand that is able to open big doors.”

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Book:Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies

Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies

“There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are.”

Inspirational Reality Acceptance

Book:The Book of Broken Hearts

Source: The Book of Broken Hearts

“I was always reaching for love, but it turns out love doesn't involve reaching. I was always dreaming of the big love, the ultimate love, the love that would sweep me off my feet or 'break open the hard shell of my lesser self' (Daisaku Ikeda). The love that would bring on my surrender. The love that would inspire me to give everything. As I lay there, it occurred to me that while I had been dreaming of this big love, this ultimate love, I had, without realizing it, been giving and receiving love for most of my life. As with the trees that were right in front of me, I had been unable to value what sustained me, fed me, and gave me pleasure. And as with the trees, I was so busy waiting for and imagining and reaching and dreaming and preparing for this huge big love that I had totally missed the beauty and perfection of the soft-boiled eggs and Bolivian quinoa.”