Jon Favreau Quotes

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 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.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that.

When people show you their boundaries ("I can't do this for you") you feel rejected...part of your struggle is to set boundaries to your own love. Only when you are able to set your own boundaries will you be able to acknowledge, respect and even be grateful for the boundaries of others.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

In every person we meet there's this little piece of God in them and that's who you talk to. And that's the only person that you allow to talk to you. When something else is speaking, you walk away from that. If it's not good, if it's not love, you walk away from it.

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

We do not judge the people we love.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I'd learned that I couldn't really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can't fix. I didn't quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then.

My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.

I want to make people feel good about who they are regardless of who they are or where they come from or the color of their skin or what their family acts like or what they look like. I am all about acceptance of others and of yourself.

To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

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

Surround yourself with people who are going to support you regardless of what your sexual orientation is, and you can have a beautiful life filled with love.

At the end of the day, there should be no judgment or body shaming on anyone.

How do you redefine love when your idea of love is something that's so violent? When your idea of passion is anger, how do you fix that?

You have to accept people for who they are. You can guide. You can give people chances. But you cannot hold on to people in fear that you are bad because you can't keep everyone you've hired.

Truth is, I love everyone that is a good person regardless of what they look like, walk like, or who they love.

You cannot change a person. Let them be. Let them be the way they are.

Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place.