Bret Stephens Quotes

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

You do not have to agree with me to love me.

We must take our friends as they are.

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

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.

We do not judge the people we love.

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.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

I think it's all about people loving each other and having compassion, accepting one another and educating themselves.

I have learnt one thing in life: if you love being with someone, you have to accept that person with all the flaws.

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.

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

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

The truth is I try to take people as I find them.

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

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.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

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

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

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality.

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.

I think if we open ourselves to all different kinds of men and all groups, we find a lot more opportunities to love.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.