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First of all, you need to love yourself, 'cause that's the only way you're going to get by and be O.K. as an individual. But it's important to make other people feel loved because you never know what they're going through.

Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.

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.

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

You can never take those you love for granted, and you have to be willing to be open and really communicate with one another to make any relationship work. And that's just it: relationships take work, and they take compromise and compassion and understanding.

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.

There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.

You have to surround yourself with people who love you and want the best for you.

It is a big world that we live in, and people have a choice to love who they love.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.