Sarah Dessen Quotes

Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.

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

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

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

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

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

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

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

I have learnt one thing in life: that if you love someone, you have to accept that person with his/her flaws.

Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.

Works of love are always to accept and respect others.

Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. (1 Cor 13:5)

Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others.

One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.

She didn’t judge him or hate him for things that weren’t his fault. She accepted him and that was the greatest miracle of all.

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

I don't judge. I'm not God. We're supposed to be less judgmental and accept and be kind and love one another.

..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.

True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.

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

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

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

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.