Quotes tagged ‘Acceptance’

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“You don’t walk away if you love someone. You help the person.”

“It takes a special someone to see darkness inside of someone and not condemn them.”

“Find someone who loves you well. Someone who never belittles you. Even in the heat of an argument. Someone who is gentle with you, but does not treat you like you are fragile. Someone who knows what you are capable of, and celebrates those pieces of you. Not someone who is intimidated by your streng…”

— Sanjay Gupta, amazon.com

“I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.”

— Libba Bray, amazon.com

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”

— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.com

“I want somebody with a sharp intellect and a heart from hell. somebody with eyes like starfire and a mouth with a kiss like a bottomless well. but mostly I just want someone who will love me. when I do not know how to love myself.”

— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com

“But I love you, I love you for that too, not only for your virtues, but also for your malice.”

— Knut Hamsun, amazon.com

“I want to be inside your darkest everything.”

— Frida Kahlo, amazon.com

“aren’t we all waiting to be proofread by someone, praying that they’ll tell us that we make sense?”

— Rudy Francisco, rudyfrancisco.tumblr.com

“Loving someone is giving them the power to hurt you, but trusting them not to.”

— Julianne Moore, goodreads.com

“She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“It doesn’t interest me… what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me… how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It doe…”

— Oriah, amazon.com

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com

“Do not call me perfect, a lie is never a compliment. Call me an erratic, damaged and insecure mess. Then tell me that you love me for it.”

— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com

“I want love to be simple. I want to trust without thinking. I want to be generous with my affection and patience and love unconditionally. It is easier to love a person with their flaws than to weed through them. I want to love the whole person, not parts; and this is how I want to be loved.”

— Jewel, amazon.com

“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

“There’s a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn’t very lovable.”

— Yasmin Mogahed, twitter.com

“You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.”

— Louise Erdrich, amazon.com

“She warned me about how moody she is; she thought I’d easily leave if she showed me all her day faces, but she didn’t know how much I love the moon and all its phases.”

— Maram Rimawi, wnq-writers.com