Quotes About Acceptance

We need not think alike to love alike.

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

A cat does not want all the world to love her -- only those she has chosen to love.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love

BETTER TO HAVE LOVED AND LOST THEN TO HAVE NEVER LOVED AT ALL

Love takes no sides but understands them all.

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not

I will love you when your hair turns gray, and I'll still love you if you gain a little weight. The way I feel for you will always be the same just as long as your loves doesn't change.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

True love is always unconditional. Healthy, loving relationships are never unconditional.

Im very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just dont expect them to realize it yet.

I was onstage and I was shocked; it hurt so badly. I thought: Why am I doing this? Why do I sing about needing to get better so she'll come back? That's a real problem I have. I don't need to get better - I need to find someone who likes me the way I am, someone who finds Chris desirable.

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.