Accept Love Quotes

#1. There is so much love in us all, but often we are too shy to express our love, and keep it bottled up inside us. We must learn to love, to love until it hurts, and we will know how to accept love.

Mother Teresa

#2. Accept love when it is offered, Violet. Return love and not suspicion. Then you'll receive more. - Loyalty Tang

Amy Tan

#3. I learned you must always accept love when it's offered, always give it when it's needed. There might not be a second chance. And I know, too, that until your heart's been broken, you never know the full beauty of love.

Nora Roberts

#4. My life has been filled with countless mistakes, but also success. I have been a coward at some points but brave at others. I have loved and been loved; I have failed to love and to accept love. Above all else I have tried my best, every step of the way.

Carolyn Lee Adams

#5. Is it a shame that I can't accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else's world?

Henry Rollins

#6. Just as like finds like, love finds love. Embrace it. Be open and giving. Accept love with kindness, grace, and spirit.

Michael Holbrook

#7. We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past.

Kristin Armstrong

#8. I own the responsibility for determining my own value. I do not expect anyone else to make me feel valued and important. That must come from inside me. Once I know my value is set and absolute, I can accept love and validation from others, and believe it.

Kimberly Giles

#9. Sometimes to love is easy, but to accept love is hard.

Brent Weeks

#10. Sometimes love didn't make sense. And that was okay. It was far better to know love and accept love than try to understand it.

Rachel Higginson

#11. This summer had been about finding herself, and learning to accept love in its various forms
and to give love. - Quinn Reynolds

Molli Moran

#12. We cannot accept love from another human being when we do not love ourselves, much less accept that God could possibly love us.

Brennan Manning

#13. Accept love with love, but never forget to forgive hate with love.

Debasish Mridha

#14. you will find a way to accept love. You will believe in yourself. You must believe that you can find love.

Babe Walker

#15. Accept love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions.

Meg Rosoff

#16. It's hard for me to accept love. I wish I could lie to you and tell you that it's easy for me, but it's not.

Lee Daniels

#17. Reserve delicacy of sentiment for friendship; accept love for what it is.... The more dignity you give it, the more dangerous you make it.

Ninon De L'Enclos

#18. She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

William Faulkner

#19. Dear Mom,
I'm as tight as a girdle. How do I accept love?
--B

Dear Potato Face,
Just say 'thank you,' then shut up.
--M

Betsy Robinson

#20. I don't want to be in some relationship that's just about trading apologies when things get hard. Doing that won't make it all OK, you know? So, no, I don't forgive you. But I fucking accept you, including all the shit you do that tests my patience. Because I love you.

Liora Blake

#21. I love to say "please" and you have to accept me that way. If you don't, it's your problem.

Rajashree Choudhury

#22. To praise God is to express our acceptance of something that God is permitting to happen. So to praise God for difficult situations, as sickness or disaster, means literally that we accept its happening, as part of God's plan to reveal His perfect love for us. We

Merlin R. Carothers

#23. All too often I try to skate away from the things I'm afraid of and things I don't like and am unwilling to accept. I'm selfish and difficult to handle. I give my men cause for concern. I worry them, but they haven't given up on me yet and I love them all the more for it.

Gillibran Brown

#24. My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Maya Angelou

#25. How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being?

Phylicia Rashad

#26. The love we deserve is not necessarily the love we accept...

Steven Aitchison

#27. You've got to be happy, you have to do this thing [music] for the love. It's not like you go into music because it's going to make a lot of money. It's something you do ... that's the thing. You got to accept all that hard work with it, too. And enjoy it, and love it.

Creed Bratton

#28. I can't help but feel, across oceans and vast fields we will connect again. What we share is too rare to let go of for good but sometimes we have to accept, the timing isn't right.

Nikki Rowe

#29. Accept me for who iam or leave me the way iam, for a true image of God needs no Photoshop and the core of who i really am has no settings

Morgan Chabane

#30. At the center of the universe, is a deep abiding love. We are called to be part of it. We Catholics and Christians are not ashamed to believe this. We invite everyone to accept the challenge to live as if we were all loved into existence.

Jennifer Morse

#31. when men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom

John Gray

#32. When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are.

Troy Perry

#33. You - you strange - you almost unearthly thing! - I love as my own flesh. You - poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are - I entreat to accept me as a husband.

Charlotte Bronte

#34. Love can either be your greatest companion or your worst enemy, depending on your pride to accept or deny things.

Anthony Liccione

#35. Love is the only constant, the only reality, and when you accept and understand that you will know it.

Frank Natale

#36. And now he was mine and I said we should not let our love be threatened.
We should not let the family fall apart.
We should not accept an evil we can change.
We would stand up against it, would we not?
Yes. We should.
We would be heroes, even.

E. Lockhart

#37. Stairs are your teacher; they teach you to be stronger. Love your teacher and every time life puts some stairs before you, accept them as a present!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#38. Do you really love me? means, Will you accept me in process? Will you embrace what is different about me and applaud my efforts to become? Can I just be human
strong an vibrant some days, weak and frail on others? ... Will you love me even when I disappoint you? ...

Angela Thomas

#39. But with trust we can strive to accept even what we cannot understand.

Christopher Ryan

#40. I open my arms wide and declare with love that I deserve and accept all good!

Louise Hay

#41. None of us can accept all what we may be offered in this life. Sometimes we must say no, even to love.

Cameron Dokey

#42. Love is waiting for you lifting to hand, open your heart, and accept it.

Debasish Mridha

#43. As you meditate, you will be able to look at the beauties and horrors of life and accept them with an equal mind. You will love more and be kinder to those around you.

Frederick Lenz

#44. To be fully and authentically human, we have to be prepared to take off the armor we usually go around wearing to keep the world from hurting us. We have to be prepared to accept pain, or else we will never dare to hope or to love

Harold Kushner

#45. It began with your eyes cast down, and mine looking right at you,
I watched you rule out hundreds of questions and accept only mine. I poured my stories into your eager heart, and you sparked faith inside the stubbornness of mine. Our beginning was written in the stars - how could it not be?

Emalynne Wilder

#46. When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that's why you love them.

Patrick Modiano

#47. Low self-confidence is simply a problem of Awareness. Once you are aware of the Truth about yourself, you will be able to understand why you are the way you are and, most importantly, learn to love and accept yourself.

Robert Anthony

#48. It is our continuing love for our children that makes us want them to become all they can be, and their continuing love for us that helps them accept healthy discipline
from us and eventually from themselves.

Fred Rogers

#49. Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love. When we see ourselves as we truly are and accept ourselves, we build the necessary foundation for self-love.

Bell Hooks

#50. If one of my daughters happened to be [gay], of course I would love them and I would accept them.That's what we're taught when we have strong faith.

John Kasich

#51. We must be able to love other people or forever endure the stain of disgraceful loneliness. By recognizing and expressing empathy for other people, we come to accept our own fallibility.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#52. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

George Wald

#53. When we accept ourselves as we are, we aren't "settling" or "keeping the problem in place." We're showing love and compassion for ourselves-for our feelings, our situation, and our history.

Nick Ortner

#54. While Dmitri, as the leader of Raphael's Seven, could not accept such a weakness, the mortal he'd once been, the one who had loved a woman with a wide mouth and eyes of slanted brown ... that man understood what it was to love so deeply it was a kind of beautiful madness.

Nalini Singh

#55. Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#56. I don't have to prove my worth and value to any but those I love, and that I do by being who I am, with confidence that those I love appreciate the good and accept the bad. Does anything else really matter?

R.A. Salvatore

#57. It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had,

Tracee Ellis Ross

#58. When they finally made love, he would accept no more than total surrender from her, just as he would surrender himself to her. There was nothing casual about what lay between them, and he wouldn't allow her to pretend otherwise.

~Ethan

Rosalie Lario

#59. Go become someone's miracle! There's healing in your hand, in your voice, in your heart, in your eyes! YOU ARE A HEALER! You have the power to love, to accept, to encourage, to lift someone's spirit, to hug, to help, to listen, to care!! YOU ARE A MIRACLE!

Abhishek Kumar

#60. you accept the love you think you deserve

Stephen Chbosky

#61. But C. S. Lewis made the point that we hate sin but love the sinner all the time - in our own lives. In other words, when we're judging ourselves, we always love the sinner despite our sin. We accept ourselves, even though we might not always like our behavior.

Lee Strobel

#62. True love involves a willingness to change, to become more like the ones we love. Love is dynamic, not static. God may accept us just as we are - but he isn't going to leave us there. God wants to move us on, to help us become the people we are meant to be.

Alister E. McGrath

#63. We like people for their qualities, but we love them for their defects." In writing this line I meant to say that we must not simply "accept" imperfection when it is revealed to us - we must celebrate it. This, I assure you, is the true sign of friendship.

Ron Perlman

#64. Be kind today ... to yourself, remember to be a good friend to yourself, accept that you're doing your best, love your perfect imperfections, be mindful of what you need and give it to yourself, and surround yourself with people who honor, love and cherish you for who you are.

Ian Lawton

#65. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

C. G. Jung

#66. In order for us to learn to love, first ourselves and the others, we must accept Jesus' love for us in the deepest parts of our hearts.

Sara Dormon

#67. And for ego, to accept that you have ego is the only way and then it will drop out. If you know there is ego, ego will drop out.

Nirmala Srivastava

#68. But in order to be strong, you have to love yourself, and in order to love yourself, you need thorough self-knowledge, you need to know everything about yourself, including your most hidden secrets, the ones most difficult to accept.

Susanna Tamaro

#69. You know Schmeckle, people are like feet. Most everyone has a pair and yet feet are so unique. So, we must treat all people with respect and accept their unique way.

Ellen Newhouse

#70. Step one, accept she was a damn boss. Step two, hide all the knives, guns, and maybe the pillows, too.

J.J. McAvoy

#71. What is closer to the truth is that when confronted with the love you deserve, it is easier to mock it than accept it. Especially when everything else you have experienced of love and connection is based on something more like control or disdain.

Jessica Valenti

#72. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.

Barbara Sher

#73. And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she would not say 'be careful' or 'don't do it', but she would accept his decision because she would not have expected anything less of him.

J.K. Rowling

#74. When man and women are able to respect and accept there differences the love has a chance to blossom

John Gray

#75. We come to love those we serve. If we choose to begin to serve the Master out of even a glimmer of faith, we will begin to know Him. We will come to know His purposes for the people we serve for Him. Even when they do not accept our offer to serve them, we will feel His appreciation if we persist.

Henry B. Eyring

#76. Because of what Jesus has done, I love and accept myself.

Joyce Meyer

#77. We just can't love without God. God wants for us want we want for ourselves. These basic things are not that hard to grasp. We just have to have faith, and faith is a gift. We just need to accept it.

Rich Mullins

#78. He silenced the thought, already itching to get inside her, his tongue, or his fingers, or his cock. After all these years of wanting, he would gladly accept whatever access to her body she gave him. He just wanted in.

Amber Belldene

#79. We look for our perfect partners, and we wish we can be accepted the way we are. We seek unconditional love. It is all beautiful. While doing it we can always remember that we need to accept ourselves unconditionally, as much as we wish others to accept as with no conditions.

Raphael Zernoff

#80. One of the biggest lessons I learned from nearly dying of cancer is the importance of loving myself unconditionally. In fact, learning to love and accept myself unconditionally is what healed me and brought me back from the brink of death.

Anita Moorjani

#81. Accept that you can and will do what you must do, to take good care of yourself.

Bryant McGill

#82. Change is inevitable, so accept it.
Forgiveness is a gift, so give it.
Love is abundant, so spread it.
Failure is not fatal, do don't fear it.
Life is for living, so live it.

Debasish Mridha

#83. Only the highest souls realize and accept that he who sins is far more to be pitied, aye, and loved, if love is what the highest human passion should be, than is the one against whom the sinner has sinned.

Louise Jordan Miln

#84. We're a new generation of people. We need to be happy. We need to love each other. We need to accept each other for who we are and stop judging each other. Live life and love. Stop judging just to keep yourself secure. Look deeper. There's always something deeper than what it is.

Lil B

#85. I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.

Louise L. Hay

#86. Other people feel love when we listen without judging and accept them without demanding change. We all desperately require these basic needs. When we can do this for another, we are indeed that person's angel.

David W. Earle

#87. If you accept a punitive notion of God, who punishes or even eternally tortures those who do not love him, then you have an absurd universe where most people on this earth end up being more loving than God!

Richard Rohr

#88. It's easier to say (I'm going to be myself and if anyone wants to be with me, then she/he has to accept me as I am ... flaws and all) than it is for us to work at reducing our flaws and making ourselves more acceptable.

Darrell Roberts

#89. It is far easier for us to accept the death of someone we love than to cope with the idea of losing him and discovering that he is able to carry on with his life, in all its intricacies, despite our absence.

Ahlam Mosteghanemi

#90. Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.

Marcus Aurelius

#91. What love will make you do
All the things that we accept
Be the things that we regret

Ashanti

#92. I have grown more forgiving. I accept that not everything is for me. I'm not as in love with my own opinions as I used to be. And anger is not something that comes to me as quickly as it once did.

Ira Kaplan

#93. It's like I'm trying to keep the bad away with one hand while holding on to the good with the other, and it just doesn't work. It's stupid. I need both hands. So I guess I just have to spread out my arms and accept the bad with the good.

Andrea Lochen

#94. You can love other people only to the degree that you've come to love and accept yourself

Shakti Gawain

#95. This man of his, yes, this man. Now Sam accepts his own desire. "I'm a gayrod," he shouts marching through crowded plazas. "I'm in love with a man, and I want men. That's what I want. I want man, man, man!

Barry Webster

#96. I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

G.K. Chesterton

#97. If you accept that pets can love us as much as we do them, then the logic is clear and cannot be denied. If you believe that there is a heaven for people, then they must be there, waiting for us, when we cross over. Heaven is love, and pets always share that with us.

Wallace Sife

#98. But it's not really the love that I envy, it's the trust. The feeling that no matter how bad you screw up, there is always someone who will accept you and love you for who you are; not because they have to, just because they can't not love you.

Cassia Leo

#99. Woman won't accept to be your second opinion, either you choose her or you lose her.

Eyden I.

#100. As you learn to accept that the body is transitory, as you watch it with love, but without attachment, the body will develop purity.

Frederick Lenz