Daniel Tammet Quotes

I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.

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

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

We're all amateurs when it comes to love. Don't be too hard on each other.

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

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

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.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

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.

We can only learn to love by loving.

You can never take those you love for granted, and you have to be willing to be open and really communicate with one another to make any relationship work. And that's just it: relationships take work, and they take compromise and compassion and understanding.

In this world where we live, some people are going to love you, some people are going to hate you - that's what it is. You cannot try to force everybody to love you, it's not gonna work.

I realize that I'm one of those guys that if I'm not with you, you hate me. But when I'm with you, you understand who I am and what I'm about and love me.

Learning unconditional love helped me have healthier relationships, including my current marriage.

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

We must take our friends as they are.

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

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

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

My laundry list of wants in a partner is basically kindness. I want someone who is kind, and that's kind of where it begins and ends. I'm open to being surprised.

We're all blemished. Yet we do love and are loved.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.