Acceptance Quote by Meara O'Hara

“I had all of this affection and love and trust to finally share with somebody...and now I didn't have anyone to attach it to.…

— Comicality

“I had no idea what a delicious feeling it was, to be free, to be absolutely unconcerned about whether one loved or didn't love.…

— Alfred Hayes

“Do not conflate love with attachment. The desire to hold on to what once was because of what it gave you is the epitome…

— Calvin Niles

“There it was, that dreaded word: love. I did not want to be loved, that was the burden. Unwanted love was the greatest burden…

— Margaret George The Autobiography of Henry VIII

“When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own.No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter how fucked up; no matter…

— Jodi Picoult

“Unrequited love had been all I was capable of. It gave me all the emotional jolts of real love, without ever having to drown…

— Sarah Stovell

“It was always reassuring to find that something loved hasn't changed.”

— Nora Roberts

“How did men make themselves loved, I wondered. I had passed all my life with men who were loved but I seemed never to…

— Maria McCann

“I had turned myself inside out working on the house, and had come to love it; at least, I supposed I loved it. Maybe…

— Dee Williams

“no pain was permanent, and no loss was real. That even though people treated each other abominably, even though they left, even though you…

— Lisa Alther

“I was used to being loved. A large, tight-knit family will do that for you. I might have wanted to carve my own path…

— Jo Spain

“I had enjoyed something that did not belong to me, you see. When it was taken away, I was disappointed but not harmed.”

— Mary Doria Russell