Acknowledge Love Quotes

#1. I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to acknowledge to myself that I was not loved;

Ivan Turgenev

#2. It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed. I don't think I was smarter or as beautiful as the other girls he did this to. It's just that I was me. It was all I had.

Emma Forrest

#3. Dead.
Even in the silence of my mind I cannot think the word. I cannot acknowledge this most obvious and terrible of truths.

Melanie Cusick-Jones

#4. To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they look into the mirror of our love and see themselves.

John Gray

#5. What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness and faithfulness? A pitcher who saw God's power behind his extremely unlikely rise to the big leagues wondered if, at any difficulty he encountered there, God might be taking his ability away.

Michael Lewis

#6. In the long run, every love needs someone to witness and acknowledge it, to validate it, or it may turn out to be just a mirage.

Paolo Giordano

#7. Don't wait until you're faced with someone's absence to acknowledge the importance of their presence. Love them now. Realize that the flaws, irritations, bad habits, and imperfections are all a part of what makes them, and you, unique, special, and rare to this universe.

Mandy Hale

#8. Bitter, too, to be forced to acknowledge in one's heart how little love has to do with kindness.

Par Lagerkvist

#9. We will to separate ourselves from that love. We reject it entirely and absolutely, and will not acknowledge it, simply because it does not please us to be loved.

Thomas Merton

#10. We ward off love because it presents itself to us as a demand: to acknowledge another person's needs, and thus our own; to glimpse their mortality, and thus ours. We each have our own means of achieving this avoidance.

Adam Haslett

#11. You can't have it both ways. Love is too powerful to hide for very long. Deny it and suffer the consequences. Acknowledge it and suffer the consequences. Revealing it can either be shameful or it can be liberating. It is for others to decide which it will be.

Tonya Hurley

#12. Do you still love me?" My breath stopped as I
waited for his answer. I hoped from his expression and his song that he
did, but I needed to hear him acknowledge it.
He sighed and looked over my face. Slowly, he nodded. "You would
never believe how much.

S.C. Stephens

#13. If you're not broadcasting what people feel is their truth as it relates to you, well that becomes a problem. If your not broadcasting how much you love your boyfriend or husband via social media, problems occur in the home and I really think this is happening more than we acknowledge.

Aeriel Miranda

#14. There is one side. That is the side of friendship and trust and love and that is the side that everyone should be on, and I am refusing to acknowledge that any other side could exist.

Alexandra Bracken

#15. It was the particular feel of him that made me want to go back: everything that is said is said underneath, where, if it does matter, to acknowledge it is to let on to your embarrassment. That I love you makes me want to run and hide.

Jenny Boully

#16. To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to be afraid and to know and acknowledge your fear, and still to live creatively and with unstinting love: that is to live with grace.

Peter Abrahams

#17. She would want me to forget all about him. But how could eyes not notice the light? How could lungs not acknowledge the air? There are just some things you can't ignore.

Kiera Cass

#18. One thing I try to do with my work is to show that people who have extreme fetishes or who exist outside the constraints of "normal" society still have romantic impulses and are capable of love and tenderness. Sometimes people cannot or don't want to acknowledge that pornographers are people too!

Bruce LaBruce

#19. The thing about heartbreak, I realized, is it's not really about waiting for things to stop hurting before you start moving. A broken heart can and will heal in time, but for time to actually do its job, I needed to acknowledge what I had lost, and move on.

Ana Tejano

#20. If you love someone or something, you acknowledge and are expressing your oneness with it. Love is simply the recognition of Oneness.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#21. Many of us follow the commandment 'Love One Another.' When it relates to caregiving, we must love one another with boundaries. We must acknowledge that we are included in the 'Love One Another.

Peggi Speers

#22. Refusing to acknowledge and embrace your sinful past is choosing your love for yourself over your love of God.

Stephen Arterburn

#23. Start behaving like the mature woman you are, and acknowledge the fact that you have flaws. And give the poor devil a chance to prove that he can love you regardless.

Lisa Kleypas

#24. To be recipient to God's love is to acknowledge being made in God's image

Sunday Adelaja

#25. The intense desire to talk with someone, sharp as any pain; this was what people meant when they talked about love. Or rather; this was what Sax would acknowledge to be love. Just the super-heightened desire to share thoughts. That alone.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#26. We project our own capacities - for good as well as evil - onto the other person. Then we acknowledge as love primarily those things that correspond to our own image thereof.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#27. ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

Ambrose Bierce

#28. If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a "weakness" or an "absurdity": it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)

Roland Barthes

#29. In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.

Walter Scott

#30. If the thought of lack -whether it be money, recognition, or love has become part of who you think you are, you will always experience lack. Rather than acknowledge the good that is already in your life, all you see is lack.

Eckhart Tolle

#31. If you examine your life well, you will find many instances when God showed His unmistakable mercy to you. Trouble was brewing, but it passed you by for some reason. God delivered you. Acknowledge these and thank God, Who loves you.

Theophan The Recluse

#32. Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness - both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.

Dawna Markova

#33. Love reveals its insanity by its refusal to acknowledge the inherent NORMALITY of the loved one

Alain De Botton

#34. This woman who wants to lead a revolution for love and doesn't even acknowledge her own daughter

Lauren Oliver

#35. In addition to helping me understand what love looks like between people, these definitions also forced me to acknowledge that cultivating self-love and self-acceptance is not optional. They aren't endeavors that I can look into if and when I have some spare time. They are priorities.

Brene Brown

#36. We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love.

John Green

#37. To be truly happy in this world is a revolutionary act ... It is a radical change of view that liberates us so that we know who we are most deeply and can acknowledge our enormous ability to love.

Sharon Salzberg

#38. No matter how much people recognize you, or how popular you are with them, you will be unhappy unless you acknowledge yourself. True recognition does not only come from those around you or the world. It comes when you recognize and love yourself

Ilchi Lee

#39. When you are angry with someone,at least you acknowledge that person's existence. But with indifference,you kill him by invalidating his very existence.

Madhu Vajpayee

#40. Acknowledge the present moment. It is the greatest present in your life.

Debasish Mridha

#41. You must learn to honor and cherish and love your Self. You must first see your Self as worthy before you can see another as worthy. You must first know your Self to be holy before you can acknowledge holiness in another.

Neale Donald Walsch

#42. With full mugs and expectant hearts-
Acknowledge His presence.
Listen.
Give Him your day, each day.
Every day.

Eric Samuel Timm

#43. I love science fiction. There are ways in which this community kept me and my partner alive through some very, very bad years, and I will always acknowledge that.

Nalo Hopkinson

#44. Accepting and appreciating heart brings abundance in life but gratitude acknowledge and dance with joy of receiving.

Debasish Mridha

#45. If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

Stephen Colbert

#46. The more we identify and acknowledge moments when we're unable to share in someone else's pleasure and ask ourselves whether another person's happiness truly jeopardizes our own, the more we pave the way for experiencing sympathetic joy

Sharon Salzberg

#47. It takes only a few seconds to acknowledge a smile full of love, and yet those few seconds can be a gateway into an eternity full of love.

Franco Santoro

#48. When people show you their boundaries ("I can't do this for you") you feel rejected ... part of your struggle is to set boundaries to your own love. Only when you are able to set your own boundaries will you be able to acknowledge, respect and even be grateful for the boundaries of others.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#49. Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him,
Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

Ovid

#50. It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.

Joyce Carol Oates

#51. Not all were joyful tales; we needed to acknowledge that love was not just kisses, smiles, and fulfillment, but also sacrifice, compromise, and hard work.

Juliet Marillier

#52. A question I've thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.

Gabrielle Zevin

#53. It is very possible to acknowledge another person's concerns without entering into their vibration.

Alaric Hutchinson

#54. I will die the way I learned to live. Fully aware. At peace. With a heart so full of love that even as it slows, it is still full.
Because I know something the Scientists refuse to acknowledge.
Death is only the beginning.

Krista McGee

#55. The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.

Bell Hooks

#56. Even Bertrand Russell, who fancied he saw flaws in Christ's character, confessed nonetheless that 'What the world needs is love, Christian love, or compassion.' But this belies a belief in what most others acknowledge, namely, that Christ was the perfect manifestation of the virtue of love.

Norman Geisler

#57. Children of eight and nine who love their mothers dearly will cross to the other side of the street when they see her coming, if they happen to be with friends, because to greet or be greeted by their mothers in the presence of peers is to acknowledge having been (and perhaps still being) a baby.

Dorothy H Cohen

#58. Writing is emotional ... it is baring your soul to the world and waiting for someone to acknowledge and love it, or shun and hate it, or worse be indifferent about it.

Anne-Rae Vasquez

#59. I was just thinking now was as good a time as any to acknowledge that you're perfect and it wouldn't suck if you fell madly in love with me anytime soon. - TRENT

Jamie McGuire

#60. Silence falls, pulsing with the truth of what I've learned and what Dean has yet to acknowledge. Our relationship, our love, cannot and will never be perfect. It will, however, always belong only to us in all its flawed, intense beauty. Perfect in its very imperfection.

Nina Lane

#61. Love is easy! Kindness is easy. So I try on my Twitter page to acknowledge everyone that reaches out to me. I try to make my page - I can't control the rest of Twitter - but I try to make my page a safe place for people.

Yvette Nicole Brown

#62. We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane.

Alain De Botton

#63. When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we respect and uphold their rights.

Bell Hooks

#64. The thing about love is one can never define it exactly. And as much of a mystery as that is and as familiar it is when we acknowledge it, words just aren't enough. So we find ourselves scratching the walls while our hair is falling out. Then we can't live without it. We become addicts.

Kevin Fuller

#65. The right thing to do would be for you to acknowledge that you feel something for me that's remotely close to what I feel for you. I've asked only for a single grain of sand from you, Persephone, while I'm the whole fucking beach at your feet...

Linda Robertson

#66. It's only when we acknowledge God as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, that we can receive His love for us.

Stormie O'martian

#67. You think if you don't talk about it, you can just pretend everything is all right? Everything is not all right. Not with us, not with your parents, not with anything today. And if you let yourself go anywhere real with it, you have to acknowledge it.

Laura Dave

#68. There comes a moment in life when one must acknowledge that you just can't keep looking back into your past for reasons to keep someone in your present and future. Regardless of how much looking that cruel reality in the eye hurts ... memories can't be enough.

Eiry Nieves

#69. Change is difficult, but necessary for salvation. Turn from your sins and acknowledge Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Let Him take control of your life. He won't let you down. He's not you. He's God.

Calvin W. Allison

#70. We find hope in a hostile place when we focus on the goodness of God as revealed in His promises. In other words, hope and security come when we - like the Israelites - acknowledge God's love for us.

Elizabeth George

#71. When it comes to the crunch, coming out is the greatest of all confessions. Nothing is more difficult to acknowledge. When we become ourselves we reach right back to the time when we were conceived out of our parents' passion.
We murder their lives. There can never be any forgiveness.

Witi Ihimaera

#72. As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

Giacomo Casanova