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• They always say, doing what I do for a living, write what you know and then people will respond to it. I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in. All I had to do was write a character that was like my mom, and it made my life easier.

  Dan Fogelman

  Mom, Writing, Character

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• A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Infinite

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• You don't have to run around world proving you're lovable.

  Henri Nouwen

  Running, World, Prove

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.

  T. D. Jakes

  Teaching, Way, Flaws

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• Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.

  George Sand

  Weed, Heart, Errors

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• There is more to someone being lovable than the way they look.

  Cassandra Clare

  Looks, Way

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• We assume that others are receiving the kind of appreciation we want for ourselves, and we proceed on the assumption that since we are not loveable as we are, we must become lovable under false pretenses, as if we were something better than we are.

  Thomas Merton

  Appreciation, Receiving, Want

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• The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Cat, Pet, Helpful

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• The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.

  Aidan Chambers

  Memorable, People, Most Memorable

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• It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable

  Ashley Montagu

  Needs, Individual, Most Lovable

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• I'm the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I'm a con man and I'm thoroughly lovable.

  Steve Martin

  Running, Beer, Men

  "Comedians pull rank in 'Sgt. Bilko'" by Paul Vercammen, www.cnn.com. March 29, 1996.

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• My Jesus! What a lovable contrivance this holy Sacrament was - that You would hide under the appearance of bread to make Yourself loved and to be available for a visit by anyone who desires You!

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Desire, Bread

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• Act in such a way that your humility may not be weakness, nor your authority be severity. Justice must be accompanied by humility, that humility may render justice lovable.

  Pope Gregory I

  Humility, Justice, Weakness

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• What you need to do, is to put your will over completely into the hands of your Lord, surrendering to Him the entire control of it. Say, "Yes, Lord, YES!" to everything, and trust Him to work in you to will, as to bring your whole wishes and affections into conformity with His own sweet, and lovable, and most lovely will. It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him. He turns hard things into easy, and bitter things into sweet. It is not that He puts easy things in the place of the hard, but He actually changes the hard thing into an easy one.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Change, Trust, God

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• Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

  Denis Waitley

  Love, Inspiring, Respect

  Denis Waitley (1986). “The Winner's Edge: The Critical Attitude of Success”, Berkley

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• A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.

  E. B. White

  Love, Country, Men

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• Attachment is misery, but from the very beginning the child is taught for attachment. The mother will say to the child, "Love me; I am your mother." The father will say, "Love me; I am your father" - as if someone is a father or a mother so he becomes automatically lovable.

  Rajneesh

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Ever since the Beatles, the concept of lovable mop tops, it's a bit of a fantasy, but it's a lovely idea that people make wonderful music and live a wonderful life being friends together. Sadly, life isn't quite like that.

  Nick Mason

  Ideas, People, Lovely

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• Agape means love for another self not because of any lovable qualities which he or she may possess, but purely and entirely because it is a self capable of experiencing happiness and misery and endowed with the power to choose between good and evil. The love of humans is thus more than a feeling, it is a state of the will.

  Obert C. Tanner

  Love, Mean, Self

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• I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years and years fine-tuning, revising, editing, etc. What inspires me? Who knows. I am not inspired that much. That’s why I write long form fiction - I am not much of a short story writer. Ideas come seldom, but when a good one comes, I really stick to it and see it out. I’m a problem-solver - I've never thrown out an entire manuscript; I've always forced myself to repair it until it was a lovable thing again.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Writing, Editing, Years

  "Beyond Diaspora: Porochista Khakpour". Interview with Roxanne Naseem Rashedi, lareviewofbooks.org. February 17, 2013.

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• And then he says, "The writer must be true to truth." And that's a killer, because the only way you can describe a human being truly is by describing his imperfections. The perfect human being is uninteresting - the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable. And when the writer sends a dart of the true word, it hurts. But it goes with love. This is what Mann called "erotic irony," the love for that which you are killing with your cruel, analytical word.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hurt, Writing, Perfect

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.3, Anchor

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• The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.

  Joseph Campbell

  Perfect, World, Humans

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.3, Anchor

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• Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

  Joseph Campbell

  Artist, Perfection, Clumsiness

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• Be loving, and you will be lovable. Be open and receptive to love.

  Louise Hay

  Ready For Love, Receptive

  Louise Hay (2011). “21 Days to Master Affirmations”, p.73, Hay House, Inc

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• The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.

  Cyril Connolly

  Stupid, Power, Bored

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