Caroline Knapp Quotes

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

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

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

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

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

My biggest lesson I've learned about love is to keep on loving. Love is love; it's amazing. It's fine. It hurts. It's probably one of the best experiences in life.

People have their faults, but it doesn't prevent you from loving them.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

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.

When you love someone, you should see beyond their image.

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

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

There are different definitions of love, and one of the most wonderful definitions of love is to allow somebody to be.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

I wouldn't care if they tattoo Festus all over. He's been good to me.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

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

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

The more I worked on 'Half Brother,' the more it seemed to me the story was really about love in all its possible forms - how and why we decide to bestow it, or withdraw it; how we decide what is more worthy of being loved, and what is less. We are masters of conditional love.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

We love things we love what they are.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for 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.

Love means never having to say you're a zero.