You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

People are never perfect, but love can be.

And she finds it difficult to believe — that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

"It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.

Pronounce a lover 'perfect' can only be a sign that we have failed to understand them. We can claim to have begun to know someone only when they have substantially disappointed us.

He's not perfect. You are not either

Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.

Self-acceptance is hard for many of us. There is a voice inside that is constantly judging, first ourselves and then others.

Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

If you love a person,
you accept the total person.
With all the defects.
Because those defects are a part of the person.

Never try to change a person you love,
because the very effort to change says that you love half,
and the other half of the person is not accepted .

When you love,
you simply love.

When we love too much it is difficult to discover when we have ceased to be beloved.

Love is not about staging the perfect proposal or creating a perfect relationship. It’s about learning to navigate the imperfections that are intrinsic to ourselves, our partners, and life itself.

Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real