Lovable Quotes

• If you want to be loved, be lovable.

  Ovid

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I think everybody longs to be loved and longs to know that he or she is lovable and, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they are loved and capable of loving.

  Fred Rogers

  Love, Thinking, Helping

  "Fred Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor". Documentary, Biography, 2004.

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• Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

  Robertson Davies

  Love, Funny, Wise

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• Love does not come on schedule or on time. It comes unexpected, it comes unplanned. Do not shut your doors on love just because you've been hurt before. Let go of the need to be loved. Just be loving. Others will be able to see how loving and lovable you are when you express it

  Rita Zahara

  Letting Go, Hurt, Doors

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• The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.[make the best of what is necessary...if you can't have what you love, love what you have...as there are lovable or at least positive aspects in everything, because anything could be worse]

  James Jeans

  Gratitude, Detours, Aspect

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• A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Faults, Foibles

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• You have to look closely
  To see that it is pretty
  You have to look long
  To see that it is lovable
  You are the same

  Na Taejoo

  Long, Looks

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• Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)

  Brennan Manning

  Made, Loving Me

  Brennan Manning (2009). “The Furious Longing of God”, p.77, David C Cook

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• Be ready for love when it does come. Prepare the field and be ready to nourish love. Be loving, and you will be lovable. Be open and receptive to love.

  Louise Hay

  Love, Loving Someone, Doe

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Jun 06, 2011

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• Precious and priceless, so lovable, too; The world's sweetest miracle, baby, is you.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Girl, Baby, Miracle

  Helen Steiner Rice, Virginia Ruehlmann (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.39, Revell

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• Love is how we feel toward those who show us that which is lovable about ourselves.

  Gerry Spence

  Love Is, Shows, Feels

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• That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

  Deb Caletti

  Love, Family, Friends

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

  Paul Tournier

  Heart, Acceptance, Personality

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• You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ignorance, Knowing, Opposites

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• Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

  Albert Ellis

  Love, Acceptance, Alive

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• Loving yourself...does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion

  Margot Anand

  Love Yourself, Mean, Heart

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• Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn't share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.

  Judah Smith

  Evil, Levels, Sin

  Judah Smith (2013). “Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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.

  Tara Brach

  Healing, Heart, Hands

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• The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

  Marquis de Sade

  Men, Birth Defects, May

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• When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Buddhist, Compassion

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Transformation and Healing”, p.67, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Sweet, Men, Guy

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• What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

  Erich Fromm

  Sex, Mean, People

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.2, A&C Black

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• Love is everywhere, and I am loving and lovable.

  Louise Hay

  Love Is

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• Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

  Dick Gregory

  Love Is, Dangerous, Ability

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• We cannot always judge man for only one part of his attitude. If we did so, we would be like the Pharisees in whose eyes Jesus was seen as bad, because He did not respect their rules about the Sabbath. They closed their eyes entirely to what would have lovable in Jesus, even in their sight.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Jesus, Attitude, Eye

  Richard Wurmbrand (2017). “Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.80, David C Cook

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