Quotes About Allowing Yourself To Love

#1. I swear I will spend every last breath thanking you for allowing yourself to love me.

Colleen Hoover

#2. To love is a brave thing. To be loved, braver still. But allowing yourself to love yourself? That takes the most courage of all.

Debby Ryan

#3. I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#4. When you are fully present, you transcend duality and open into Oneness. In Presence, there is power without opposition. There is love without hate, acceptance without judgment and allowing without control.

Leonard Jacobson

#5. I have said all along that I would know when it would be time to step down and now is that time. I want to thank Temple University, its fans and community for allowing me to do what I love for so long. It has never been a job for me, but a passion.

John Chaney

#6. Grief is tremendous, but love is bigger. You are grieving because you loved truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of death. Allowing this into your consciousness will not keep you from suffering, but it will help you survive the next day.

Cheryl Strayed

#7. My biggest fear is forgetting why I fell in love with writing. My biggest dream is never allowing that to happen.

Rudy Francisco

#8. The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul, helping them ripen, blossom, and bear fruit, allowing us to bring forth the unique gifts that are ours to offer in this life.

John Welwood

#9. My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.

James Broughton

#10. Love changes us and helps us move forward in life. It often helps us become the people we've always wanted to be and move away from the people we were. Love transforms us in the best of ways, allowing us only to look back on a memory of our former self.

Adam Wilde

#11. He didn't know Rachel very well, but assumed her behavior would be similar to most women he encountered. As soon as he stepped foot inside she would attack, not allowing him to get in a word. At least that was what he imagined.

Wendy Owens

#12. Lead is to lead as follow is to follow. And lead is to lead as a type of metal is to a type of metal. Which brings me to my point: To love is to lead with your heart, while allowing your ego to sink like lead.

Jarod Kintz

#13. The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

Henri Nouwen

#14. If we lack either self-awareness or confidence in who we are, we run the risk of allowing others to define who we are or who we should be.

Lisa Locke

#15. Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it's a song, a stranger, a mountain, a tea kettle, an article, a sentence, a footstep -feel it all. Look around you. All of this is for you. Take it and have gratitude. Give it and feel love.

Zooey Deschanel

#16. He followed her lead quick enough,and they were soon swaying together, allowing the moment and their hearts to heal what the other could not

Jenni James

#17. Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself.

Angie Stone

#18. ... my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Luigi Pirandello

#19. But then I stopped allowing myself to dream, because it was more painful to long for things and never get them than to deal with whatever was in front of me. [ ... ] I'm too old to hear confront nonsense anymore. Too old to believe that everything will be alright.

Veronica Roth

#20. I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

Sting

#21. Just because an individual in his 30s hasn't found true love and, yes, there are opportunities to date but it also forces you to be more particular. In so many ways, you become more adamant about finding that right person and not allowing yourself to open up to just anybody.

Jeff Garcia

#22. Love is accepting your truest, most authentic expression of self, and allowing yourself to do the same with others.

Grace Gealey

#23. George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.

Marlon Brando

#24. The magic is in the tiny moments. The small touches, the gentle smiles, the quiet laughs. The magic is about living for today and allowing yourself to breathe and be happy. My dear boy, to love is the magic.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#25. I think being able to really fall in love with someone is the craziest thing that could ever happen. You know, allowing yourself to really go there and really feel those things is extremely scary.

Zoey Deutch

#26. Blaine, the scariest part about love isn't love itself. It's letting go and plunging into the unknown. It's trusting someone with the very most sacred part of your heart. It's allowing yourself to feel something foreign and uncharted, despite how much it terrifies the hell out of you

S.L. Jennings

#27. My greatest contribution to hip-hop was allowing the United States of America to know and understand exactly how far they reach, and how influential they are to children in completely different countries because I am the import.

Monie Love

#28. Prayer means lovingly contemplating the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, allowing our hearts to be enkindled to praise and adore the love and omnipotence of the most blessed Trinity.

Basilea Schlink

#29. Love: allowing everyone and everything to Be exactly as they are(the perfect and complete fulfillment of their essence and potentiality). Be Love...

Maximus Freeman

#30. Love is about having the freedom to be you and allowing each other the freedom to be who they are while being committed.

Sharon Law Tucker

#31. But friendship meant you at least planted the seed for them, love meant allowing them the ability to weed their own garden until it was something healthy and thriving, blooming and bright and smelling of heather and tiger lilies.

Shannon Noelle Long

#32. I want her to wait for me. I want her to wait for me so bad. I don't want to think about her ever allowing anyone bedsides me to love her.

Colleen Hoover

#33. Following your heart means allowing the possibility of finding true love to be stronger than the fear of rejection.

Susane Colasanti

#34. Parents often yell and nag, instead of allowing their children to reap the natural consequences of their behavior. Parenting with love and limits, with warmth and consequences, produces confident children who have a sense of control over their lives.

Henry Cloud

#35. True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

#36. I love art that haunts me, that stays with me, that is left embedded in my mind. I don't really think there is any use for owning or collecting art; it is more about remembering and preserving it in the minds eye and allowing it into your cultural DNA.

Doug Aitken

#37. I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#38. Jesus represents the possibilities of a new dimension of existence that transcends all the boundaries that restrict us from opening ourselves to God and allowing this source of love to flow through us.

John Shelby Spong

#39. I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.

Nicole Kidman

#40. Thirty years of marriage to Erasto had taught her much, namely that men were reckless by nature, full of bluster, most incompetent, the rest fortunate to have a wife to keep them from allowing their innate ineptitude to engulf all around them.

A.H. Septimius

#41. And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

Christine Feehan

#42. Cultivating self-love is an odyssey with moments of difficulty and joy. It's an excursion into knowing ourselves, learning to accept and deal with what we discover... and struggling with our fear of allowing in a little madness to set us free.

Bud Harris

#43. I appreciate the idea of allowing people to have their own private walk with God. To me, God is about love, not condemnation.

Clay Aiken

#44. Friendship is above all the art of allowing the soft light of love to fall upon even our darkest sides." - Anne Lamott

Erica Miles

#45. Your sense of guilt will linger. It will always be part of you. but sharing it, allowing people to love you anyway, will do you the world of good. Secrets need an outlet if they are not to fester and become an unbearable burden.

Mary Balogh

#46. The thought crossed my mind that this could be dangerous. Not the ill-advised sex with the just-out-of-his-teens pop star, but the cuddling. The lying there, drinking in his scent, watching his chest rise and fall, allowing myself to bask in my own happiness. I could fall in love this way.

Robinne Lee

#47. Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.

Alan Watts

#48. If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost as if they buttress and make possible an understanding of each other.

Richard Flanagan

#49. Tapping is a powerful tool that can truly heal, allowing forgiveness, love, and acceptance into your life, particularly when used along with affirmations.

Louise Hay

#50. The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.

Cheryl Strayed