Quotes About Acceptance

Real love, I've learned, is a very, very strong form of forgiveness. I don't think people yearn for love because they hate staying home alone on Saturday night or because they dread going into restaurants alone. People want love because they want the

If the world would fall apart in a fiction-worthy wind, I wouldn't change a thing now that you're here.

I need you in front of me, saying my name, saying to me... I choose the way you are You, the way you are

I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?

The secret of loving is living loved.

Joel, I'm not a concept. I want you to just keep that in your head. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a fu..ed-up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it.

Don't forget to love yourself.

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up

A weed is but an unloved flower.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

To be loved is very demoralizing

All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Love is appreciating your differences as well as your similarities.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and acceptance

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

The more one judges, the less one loves.