Joe Paterno Quotes

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.

I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.

Love can produce the children, but it has nothing to do with the raising of the children. I grew up thinking, 'Oh, that's it. All I have to do is fall in love.' You may think love will change everything, but it really is different with children. Children don't necessarily bring you together; they challenge you.

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

Everybody is going to have an opinion on you; not everyone is going to like you. You can't live your life based on other people's opinions of you or let that change what you do or how you feel about yourself, because then you're not living.

I have two kids, and anyone who has a kid in order to feel loved is going to be in trouble because kids are first and foremost all about themselves. They'll say they love you, but 10 seconds later they'll turn on you.

I know I'm wonderfully made, and nobody can take that away from me. So regardless of what I show you or expose to you, you don't have any bearing on my worth and what I mean.

Our bodies are always going to change, and we might not always love that, but it really has nothing to do with true beauty. True beauty comes from within.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

There are about 20 people in my life that I want to love me, and none of them are the 'Daily Mail.'

Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

When I see that my geek may have contained some of the best parts of me, when I love and appreciate him, I set my children free to see themselves as lovable however they are.

If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

I think I'm lovable. That's the gift God gave me. I don't do anything to be lovable. I have no control.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

Nobody is more worthy of love in the entire universe than you. I wish I had reminded myself of that more.

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.