Debbie Ford Quotes

Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.

When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

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

There are different definitions of love, and one of the most wonderful definitions of love is to allow somebody to be.

Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'

You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

Love is something in the heart and in the mind, so why would you chastise anyone for that? And this is something that I feel very strongly about.

I've always had a philosophy: it doesn't matter who you love or how you love, the most important thing in life is that you love.

The thing that is most conducive of that better life for all is love, acceptance, understanding and being yourself.

All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

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.

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

I just want to say, that if Jesus were alive, what would he be doing? Well, he would probably be accepting and loving people how they're made. And I always say this and it's really the truth. If being 4'11 was a sin, what would I do? Well, I could wear heels and I could add a wig.

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.

Regardless of who you are or who you like, love is love.

Develop a mind so filled with love that it resembles space.

Friends accept you the way you are.

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

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.