Following is our list of accepting love quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about love is accepting someone for who they are.
There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Love is acceptance. When you love someone . . . you take them into your heart, and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love, because we lose a part of ourselves. — Andrew the Apostle
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human. — Albert Ellis
When you accept yourself, the Universe accepts you. — Lao Tzu
It’s a form of human love to accept our complicated, messy humanity and not run away from it. — Martha C. Nussbaum
The ultimate lesson is learning how to love and be loved unconditionally — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go. — Sarah Dessen
To be loved, we have to love ourselves. Only when we love ourselves do we have enough love to give away. By giving love we then receive love. — David Wolfe
Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer. — Eckhart Tolle
Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now. — Fred Rogers
The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love. — Marianne Williamson
Love Gratefully. This love expands your heart into a greater vessel which can hold yet more love. — Harold Klemp
We are all the best versions of ourselves when we have love and acceptance in our lives. — Dianna Agron
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding. — Sayings
Top 10 Accepting Love Quotes
You can't go to Heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now. — Mother Angelica
There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion. — Ibn Arabi
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
Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things. — Leo Buscaglia
Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun. — Byron Katie
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are — Kurt Cobain
Physical strength (hard work), mental strength (perseverance) and spiritual strength (love & acceptance) are the keys to continuous growth. — Rickson Gracie
The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around! — Rumi
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. — Nhat Hanh
Accepting Love Image Quotes
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.
Not Accepting Love Quotes
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
Fill your hearts with love and gratitude. Life gives us what we need and not necessarily what we want. It follows its own wisdom, which is often incomprehensible to our gross minds. We should learn to accept situations in life. This attitude of acceptance is the secret to happiness. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them. — Iyanla Vanzant
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. — Malcolm Forbes
God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don't need to apply spiritual cosmetics to make myself presentable to Him. I can accept ownership of my poverty and powerlessness and neediness. — Brennan Manning
Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want. — Mother Teresa
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it. — C. S. Lewis
I had to learn to forgive myself, not to judge, but to learn from the past. They showed me how vital it is to accept, be truthful, and love myself. So I could do the same with others. — Marlo Morgan
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them. — Anais Nin
Growing up, I never accepted my curves, but when I got the opportunity to become a plus size model, I was able to appreciate my voluptuous body and love myself, not only on the outside, but on the inside. — Hayley Hasselhoff
Love Is Accepting Flaws Quotes
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am. — Anais Nin
What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself. — Kelly Brook
Love is being accepting of all of their flaws. — Haley Pullos
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
Love is being accepting of all of their flaws. Love is being understanding and compassionate. Love is realizing that they are going to make mistakes but knowing you can't hold it against them. Love is being constantly supportive. — Haley Pullos
Have a policy of pre-emptive forgiveness. Refuse to get offended by petty things. Make a decision early on to cut the other person some slack in everyday life. Then you can take comfort in knowing they'll do it for you, as well. Accepting each other, flaws and all, is what love is all about. — Gaelen Foley
The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope. — Timothy Keller
Accepting Yourself Self Love Quotes
No one can love you until you love yourself, and you cannot love anyone else, until you love yourself. — Raymond Charles Barker
You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. — Louise Hay
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me. — Tim Cook
You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection. — Buddha
Then let yourself love all that you take delight in
Accept yourself whole, accept the heritage
That shaped you and is passed on from age to age
Down to your entity. Remain mysterious;
Rather than be pure, accept yourself as numerous. — John Ashbery
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
The final and only act of healing is to accept that there is nothing wrong with you. — Robert Holden
God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself. — Caster Semenya
Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life. — Ellen Stern
You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. — Bindi Irwin
Can Do Anything For Love Quotes
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success- none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here. — Ram Dass
It's amazing. I can do anything. And do it well. Any good thing, I can do it. That's why I am who I am, yes, because God loves me and I'm amazed at it. I'm grateful for it. — Maya Angelou
There is nothing you can do that will make God stop loving you. You could try, but you simply can't do it - because his love for you is based upon his character and not on anything you do or say or feel. — Rick Warren
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it. — Edgar Winter
My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it’s for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won’t ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die. — Rabindranath Tagore
I believe in the institution loyalty and love, to stay with someone in good and hard times. I don't think a piece of paper or anything else can force you to do that. For many people get marry is super important, for me, the important thing is finding someone. — Enrique Iglesias
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything. — Roma Downey
I don't believe anything can do as much for a room as a glowing fire in an attractive fireplace. Men and dogs love an open fire - they show good sense. It is the heart of any room and should be kindled on the slightest provocation. — Dorothy Draper
Do what you love. Live fearlessly and take risks. Don't take no for an answer from anyone - go ahead and prove the naysayers wrong. Believe that anything can be possible. — Caroline Leavitt
I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge. More than anything, for me as an actor, it's about challenging myself and doing as many different things as I can. — Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Love And Acceptance Quotes
There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me. — C. S. Lewis
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you can completely love your ego unconditionally and accept it as part of how you express in this life, you'll no longer have a problem with it. It won't impede your growth - on the contrary, it will be an asset. — Anita Moorjani
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love. — Paul Tillich
With so many scientific achievements we know so little of where we came from and where we are going. But we know even less of the most important discovery of all – Love. Only love can accept our differences as we journey through life. And only love can allow space for our growth. — Akiane Kramarik
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it. — John Lennon
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work. — Charles Stanley
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
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. — Hermann Hesse
It isn’t hard to find a person whom I could fall in love with, to give her romance. But it’s hard to find such a person who would understand your view on life, accept who you really are and would truly care for you. — Marilyn Manson
Receiving Love Quotes
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage. — Francis of Assisi
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. — Ivan Panin
Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom. — Rudolf Steiner
Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! — Sitting Bull
He [Jesus Christ] loves to see poor sinners coming to Him, He is pleased to see them lie at His feet pleading His promises; and if you thus come to Christ, He will not send you away without His Spirit; no, but will receive and bless you. — George Whitefield
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love. — Henri Nouwen
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. — Barbara De Angelis
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. — Francis of Assisi
Love is not sexual intercourse. Love is not vital attraction and interchange. Love is not the heart’s hunger for affection. Love is a mighty vibration coming straight from the One. And only the very pure and very strong are capable of receiving and manifesting it. — Mirra Alfassa
Embracing Love Quotes
Love is such a powerful force. It's there for everyone to embrace-that kind of unconditional love for all of humankind. That is the kind of love that impels people to go into the community and try to change conditions for others, to take risks for what they believe in. — Coretta Scott King
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. — Nhat Hanh
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry. — Hosea Ballou
The biggest embrace of love you'll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you'll realize you've just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it. — Adyashanti
Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart. — Jim Henson
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference. — Lou Holtz
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. — Kenji Miyazawa
I think love is caramel. Sweet and fragant; always welcome. It is the gentle golden colour of a setting harvest sun; the warmth of a squeezed embrace; the easy melting of two souls into one and a taste that lingers even when everything else has melted away. Once tasted it is never forgotten. — Jenny Colgan
Embrace the struggle and let it make you stronger. It won't last forever. — Tony Gaskins
Accepting Yourself Quotes
There's no freedom like the freedom that comes from accepting yourself. — Camila Cabello
Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth? — Marco Pierre White
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. — Denis Waitley
Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true. — Neville Goddard
When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness. — Eckhart Tolle
Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny. — Joel Osteen
It is impossible to call yourself a Christian and defend homosexuality. There is no justification or acceptance of homosexuality... Homosexuality means the death of society because homosexuals can recruit, but they cannot reproduce. — John Hagee
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets. — Henry A Kissinger
Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets. — Clark Moustakas
Learning To Love Quotes
You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them. — Tupac Shakur
You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served". — Nina Simone
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do. — Jean Piaget
Whether you like it or not, learn to love it, because its the best thing going. Wooooo! — Ric Flair
Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. — Carol S. Dweck
Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God's love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes. — Billy Graham
Three things differentiate living from the soul verses living from the ego only: the ability to sense and learn new ways, the tenacity to ride a rough road, and the patience to learn deep love over time. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together. — Marilyn Monroe
It’s at the heart of everything we struggle with in life: longing to be valuable, to be accepted, to be prized, to be worth something to somebody, to have a life that matters, and God’s saying ‘You matter! I didn’t make anyone else like you. You’re not a reprint or a lithograph. You’re a one-of-a-kind, original creation of God. — Louie Giglio
Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate. — Rick Warren
All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you. — Franz Kafka
Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice. — Bob Goff
The way of love is the way of no-expectation. Love exists only when there is a total acceptance and no desire to change anything. — Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain]
When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts. — Mary Baker Eddy
He who is born in jail loves jail — Greek Proverbs
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. — J. K. Rowling
To love someone who doesn't love you is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall. — African Proverbs
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