Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

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.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that's ok.

Love pays attention. Love listens to the fears and the doubts of others and treats them with respect. Love accepts others the way Jesus accepts you.

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place.

I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

I find that one must accept the people in such a way as they are.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

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.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

We do not judge the people we love.

We're all blemished. Yet we do love and are loved.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.