Love Acceptance Quotes

#1. I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

Michael Learned

#2. Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself.

Steve Maraboli

#3. Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#4. Physical strength (hard work), mental strength (perseverance) and spiritual strength (love & acceptance) are the keys to continuous growth.

Rickson Gracie

#5. It is not natural to challenge the existing beliefs breaking patterns, and yet once you manage, you create a space for the new patterns to form, the ones that are filled with Love, Acceptance, Knowledge, and you give yourself & your kids a chance to Spiritually Grow.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#6. Our lives will become our greatest works of art not only when our relationships are a beautiful expression of love, acceptance, and intimacy, but when we have a deep sense of purpose that produces accomplishments that express, for us, success and significance.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#7. We are all hungry for love, acceptance and belonging. Rejection can still feel like death.

Julian Short

#8. When a child is forced to prove himself as capable, results are often disastrous. A child needs love, acceptance, and understanding. He is devastated when confronted with rejection, doubts, and never ending testing.

Virginia Mae Axline

#9. Love, acceptance, friends, two kids that I love. I have to take care of myself for them. I've also been a vegetarian for two years.

Ricky Martin

#10. I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance ... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.

Kris Jenner

#11. Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

Hanif Kureishi

#12. Kiss me back into place and remind me why we can't be together.

Ahmed Mostafa

#13. 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

#14. It's Miranda who speaks up. "You're gay," she says, with complete seriousness. "And I love you.

David Levithan

#15. Celebrating love, wherever it is found" (Trevor Dennis). I'm using this sermon title as the essence of my novel

Trevor Dennis

#16. Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.

Aaron Cohen

#17. I know that many, if not most, women would have a problem with my acceptance of what happened with Lara.
The reality is I shall always be grateful to Lara for helping my husband when I could not do so. I couldn't have chosen a better or kinder surrogate.

Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

#18. Be what you are. Do what you love. Speak what you feel. Don't hide
your humanity. Celebrate it. Embrace it.
That is how you change the world.

Vironika Tugaleva

#19. 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

#20. This book is a labor of love. It is dedicated to people who have cried themselves to sleep because they were 'different'. It is also a celebration of the 'inner outcast' in all of us, and a humble attempt to inspire tolerance, understanding, and acceptance. the intro from the author

Jodee Blanco

#21. You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.

Holly Black

#22. But I'm shocked by the tenderness in his voice. The sincerity with which he wants to know. He's like a feral dog, crazed and wild, thirsty for chaos, simultaneously aching for recognition and acceptance.
Love.

Tahereh Mafi

#23. You necessarily have to be lost, before you're found.

T. Scott McLeod

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

Christopher Ryan

#25. I don't care for the colour of your skin, I care for the size of your heart behind it.

Nikki Rowe

#26. Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver. It is one-way love.

Preston Sprinkle

#27. All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.

Simone Weil

#28. Love is an unconditional state of being.

Asa Don Brown

#29. And now she began muttering to herself. "God , who created you, must have known what He did. Enough is enough.

Chinelo Okparanta

#30. Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#31. ...we'd be okay. Not perfect, not entirely healthy, not even rational where our love for one another was concerned. Just okay. Merely sufficient, at best. But there'd be only acceptance - never shame - in being two divine failures as we emerged from slumber, perfectly flawed, and wide awake.

AngstGoddess003

#32. At the core of who we are, we crave the acceptance that comes from being loved. To satisfy this longing we will either be graspers of God's love or grabbers for people's love.

Lysa TerKeurst

#33. 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

#34. You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#35. 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

#36. It is a severe cruelty inflicted upon women ... that we should be the ones who so desperately need love ... affection ... acceptance.And yet, we suffer ... many of us, for lack of it throughout our entire lives.-Shackles of Honor

Marcia Lynn McClure

#37. Love of fate?" "It means acceptance. Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced, I suppose.

Kate Atkinson

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

C. G. Jung

#39. Love is not an emotion. Love is the essence of the Divine that manifests itself as unconditional acceptance of what is.

Cloris Kylie

#40. Whether it was the delicious food they filled us with, their humorous antics, or the extreme warmth and acceptance they provided the family, one thing is for sure, nothing could replace the love for and the love felt from Italian grandmothers.

Jacqueline Miconi

#41. Public acceptance will never replace self-love. Nor will group membership add, create, or dictate your value.

Tiffany L. Jackson

#42. 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

#43. pathetic does she have to be? She just wants acceptance and love. She lets him break her because she wants to make somebody fucking happy!" Lucian looked at the psycho. "You can't make a fucking devil happy!

Lucian Bane

#44. Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever.

Shannon L. Alder

#45. Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.

D.B. Harrop

#46. To love those who love us and are good to us is easy. To love those who are indifferent to us is workable, but to love those who have harmed us, intentionally or not, is true growth and realization.

Patsie Smith

#47. What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.

Margaret Mead

#48. Speaking from experience, because I have three daughters, I think it's always important to give your daughter the confidence that she needs so that she won't look elsewhere for approval and feeling love and acceptance.

David Charvet

#49. All that exists is the present moment

Alaric Hutchinson

#50. Do you want love, or do you want control?

T. Scott McLeod

#51. To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.

Shirley Maclaine

#52. Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.

Brennan Manning

#53. 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

#54. The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations.

Thomas Keating

#55. Love is just a mask. All we search is a Comfort, Acceptance. Consolation. Affirmation. Assurance. Indulgence. Isolation. Absolution and Remission.

Sarvesh Jain

#56. The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charm of his maiden in her acceptance of him. She was heaven whilst he pursued her as a star: she cannot be heaven, if she stoops to such a one as he.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#57. I knew from combat that casualties are the victims of a process, not of anger nor of hate or cruelty. And I believe that in the moment of acceptance, between winner and loser, between killer and killed, there is love.

John Steinbeck

#58. It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.

Billy Joel

#59. A wholesome family is one where there is a lot of love. It's living by example. It's acceptance of people at their core, but it's also pushing each other to be our best selves and try things we might not be good at.

Daphne Oz

#60. Love moves in sync with the cadence of forgiveness, sings in tune with the melody of acceptance, and dances in rhythm with the music of companionship.

Steve Maraboli

#61. What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#62. Make a promise to yourself right now, that you will choose your thoughts and words wisely, that you will no longer use disempowered language about yourself, and nor will you ever negatively define yourself by what has occurred in your past.

Miya Yamanouchi

#63. Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity.

Zack Love

#64. The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.

Mahatma Gandhi

#65. We must step out of our digital avatars, and come together and have face-to-face dialogue as often as possible.

Bryant McGill

#66. She would always love him. But she would not cease to function because he was gone

Brandon Sanderson

#67. If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

Dorothy Nolte

#68. Letting go of the past, is like opening the flood gates of healing to be set free.

Asa Don Brown

#69. It's not the good we see in the people we love, but what we refuse to see that gives us strength."
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
"Sometimes when we care about someone, we deny what's right in front of us so we can move forward, so we have a reason to continue to love.

V.R. Barkowski

#70. Love, understanding, courage, and acceptance are expressions of the life of Jesus,

Thich Nhat Hanh

#71. If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.

Eric Greitens

#72. We are all the best versions of ourselves when we have love and acceptance in our lives.

Dianna Agron

#73. What we need is not the cold acceptance of the world as a compromise,
but some way in which we can heartily hate and heartily love it.
We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a
surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent

G.K. Chesterton

#74. I release all criticism. I only give out that which I wish to receive in return. My love and acceptance of others is mirrored to me in every moment.

Louise Hay

#75. AIDS is our number one enemy. This enemy can be defeated. While the research for a cure continues, four principles
love, support, acceptance and care for those affected
can make us winners.

Nelson Mandela

#76. The search for the soul mate, the perfect partner to complete you, is a bit like searching for the perfect food when you've got a giant ulcer in your stomach. No matter what you find, it will never be good enough.

Vironika Tugaleva

#77. Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one sense, try this: we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it. The intensity of the love is weighted by how much better.

Chris Crutcher

#78. It seems as though we Christians have developed a nasty habit of leading people into a radical encounter with God's unconditional love, forgiveness, acceptance, and union only to spend the ensuing years teaching them how to become close to God to earn his approval.

Ted Dekker

#79. But don't you see, I say, I don't care. I don't care what you've done or how bad you are. Edward, we belong together. We both know it. Now I know your worst secrets and you know mine. Isn't that what you've always wanted? For us to be completely honest with each other?

J.P. Delaney

#80. Talking with Elaine like that, with no judgment from her or anything, seemed to bring my feelings more to the surface so I could look at them. I love times like that; you don't get many of them.
(Walker, in STOTAN!)

Chris Crutcher

#81. Loving yourself costs nothing, but not loving yourself could cost you everything.

B.D. Jordan

#82. Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners.

David W. Earle

#83. No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#84. It's an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.

Mary E. DeMuth

#85. I been talkin' with my buddy, and he thinks I'm virgin enough fer the two of us.

William Inge

#86. It's my place when I'm here alone. It's ours when you are here with me." ~Nolan

Sarah Brocious

#87. If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn ... If a child lives with fear, he learns to be apprehensive ... If a child lives with encouragement, he learns to be confident ... If a child lives with acceptance, he learns to love.

Dorothy Nolte

#88. It is not my place to judge any person's beliefs, but choose rather to celebrate their ability to believe.

Tom Althouse

#89. Looking outside of yourself for love and acceptance, leaves your happiness in the hands of others.

Debra Beck

#90. I have found that the less expectation you put on others, the more happiness you will find with them and yourself.

K.L. Toth

#91. If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, Chase, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#92. Love is a feeling that is imposed on you. You cannot be lazy; it is up to you to make things work and make the best of it.

Kyra Gregory

#93. I am not a broken heart,
and I am not your fault.

Charlotte Eriksson

#94. For everything you are, and everything I love about you, there's nothing you can do to save us from an impossible situation. I've accepted that. That's the hardest thing we have to do today and I've done it.

Taylor Adams

#95. I loved and adored you, but I drained you like a thirsty man at a spring. I loved what you could give me - your admiration, your acceptance, your love, your forgiveness. I forgot to love you for yourself.

Jennifer Ashley

#96. Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed.

T. Scott McLeod

#97. My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I'm not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to be seen, accepted, and loved, I must first reveal, offer, and surrender.

Anna White

#98. Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.

Wayne Dyer

#99. This time they would find the path to love and to acceptance. This time, she would know and understand the secrets of his heart as well as those of her own.

Janelle Taylor

#100. End the eternal battle of beliefs once and for all. If you are a believer, love your fellow non-believer for all the good things he or she has to offer. And if you are an atheist, then love your fellow believer for all the positivity he or she possesses.

Abhijit Naskar