Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.

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

It's nice when people love you....for you.

The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.

Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.

I can’t make this decision for you…this one’s yours. I want you to know, though, that I love you. And I always will. I know that doesn’t help, but it’s all I can do.

Most of us need to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that we belong. If we knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected the hearts of those around us, we'd reach out and join hands again and again. Our relationships have the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening. With each person we meet, we can learn to look behind the mask and see the one who longs to love and be loved.

Much of the time I’ve spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.

If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.

I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.

All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am.

We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.

Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we want them to be.

You just have to let people love you in the way they can

I want to love you and take you pretty places. Yes, I have things wrong, but also I can walk through walls if you'll let me show you.

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 love you, Kitten. Don't try to get out of this. We'll see if you love me when I pay you back. Even then I will love you, Bones called out as I stomped away.

I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.

I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.

The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.

You gave me back the paradise That I thought I lost for good You helped me find the reasons why It took me by surprise that you understood You knew all along What I never wanted to say Until I learned to love myself I was never ever lovin' anybody else.

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.