Sam Keen Quotes

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

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.

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

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

In this world where we live, some people are going to love you, some people are going to hate you - that's what it is. You cannot try to force everybody to love you, it's not gonna work.

Love is sometimes shown in the things you don't say, don't keep track of and don't notice. The greatest kindness is often shown in letting things go. None of us is perfect, but we can all be perfect friends and perfect partners by allowing those that we love to be imperfect. Give those around you the 'break' that you hope the world will give you on your own 'bad day' and you'll never, ever regret it.

Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner by loving our neighbor. Indeed, even by loving our enemies - at least by trying to learn to love them, and by believing that it is right to do so. With grace this is possible.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

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

I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.

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

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 don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

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

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

We are all deserving of love.

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

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

I've loved men that wear un-ironed clothes, it doesn't make me fall out of love. When you love someone, you should see beyond their image. It just makes me want to iron their shirt. But once you love a person, they could wear a garbage bag!

It's important to fall in love with someone you don't want to change.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

We can only learn to love by loving.