Thomas Campion Quotes

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.

A huge part of real love is constant forgiveness.

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

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

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.

Love has the patience to endure the fault it sees but cannot cure.

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.

You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

When women love, they forgive everything...

There are many sorts of love. And when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream. Sometimes you have to forgive him. Perhaps you even have to forgive him often. But forgiveness often comes with love.

Lasting love extends grace. No relationship will make it without grace. The Bible tells us that this is part of love. You're not going to have a relationship unless you have forgiveness, mercy, patience, acceptance, grace. You've got to cut people some slack.

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

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

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

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

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 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.

An ally is to be taken with his faults.

Lovers should never be without the oil of forbearance.