Sarah Dessen Quotes

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.

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

Everybody's funny if you love them.

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

I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.

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.

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.

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

We do not judge the people we love.

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

When you love someone, you don't try to change them.

Lovers should never be without the oil of forbearance.

Countries we love will inevitably do things we don't like or fail to understand. The same goes for people.

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

Love happens when people forgive.

Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.

A huge part of real love is constant forgiveness.

Really-nothing is unforgivable if you truly love someone.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.

Where love is thick, faults are thin. If you really love someone, then it is difficult to find fault with him. His faults seem negligible, for love means oneness.

If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.

When women love, they forgive everything...

Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.