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
At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.
Paul Tournier
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
Robertson Davies
I wish with all my heart that you may be the most lovable prince in the world, and I bestow my gift on you as much as I am able.
Charles Perrault
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
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Ovid
Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.
Les Paul
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
Zora Neale Hurston
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
Marquis de Sade
There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.
Gertrude Jekyll
There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
Doug Coupland
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
Erich Fromm
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.
Kenny Loggins
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