Quotes About Acceptance

Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other.

I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

I just want you that's it. All your flaws, mistakes, smiles, giggles, jokes, sarcasm. Everything. I just want you.

It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.

Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

When the time comes for you to leave me, just say so! I can let you go. But let me embrace you while saying, You'll go back to me, okay! When he leaves you.

Love sees no color

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.

Holiness is neither that passionate love of the beginning, nor the tormenting anxiety of the long waits and of the moonlight walks, but is that superior form of friendship that is given this time a true eternal look, of comprehension, of acceptance of the self sacrifice for friendship, understanding and complementarity.

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

If life gives you apples, eat them. If life gives you lemons, throw them at a wall and say 'the heck with that!'