If you were to ask someone if they wanted more love in their life, it is very unlikely that they would say they wouldn’t and that they don’t need any more. That would be like saying you don’t need to ever eat again because you are full.
Even if our lives were full of love we would still want to experience more of it, because love is never ending and the more love we have the more we will have to give away. But how do we give love away?
Before we can answer that question, we must attempt to define love or agree upon what love is. Because love is fathomless, we cannot completely understand its depth. And our attempts to define it often confine its meaning and eternal quality. However, we know when we experience love. And we can identify love in how it is expressed.
Love is communicated to us in many ways. Sometimes it is in words or someone’s thoughtfulness. We recognize it when we are treated with kindness and respect. We also communicate our love by our faithfulness, generosity, and selflessness.
There are many different attributes that we associate with love. Love is more than words and it runs deeper than feelings. Love is what we live for. We love and we want to be loved.
We look for loving qualities in people and that is what often attracts us to them. Besides being drawn to their personality, appearance, common interests, and so forth, we look for qualities that communicate love, warmth, and acceptance. If we want to build a relationship with someone, we want a connection that is deeper and founded on the attributes of love.
Loving people draw others to them. We all like to be around someone who makes us feel valued and who treats us as important. We like being around someone who is thoughtful toward us; someone who cares about our feelings; someone who can be trusted and is honest with us. We like people who make us feel good about ourselves—people who listen and understand us; people who want to help us and will go of their way for us; people who are happy when we succeed; people who appreciate us. We all like to be around people who make us feel genuinely loved.
Earlier we said that the more love we give away, the more love it is that we will have to give. Love isn’t love until you give it away. We give love away when its attributes are evident and expressed in our life. We can all grow in the various attributes of love, and we can begin to express love more fully in our lives and relationships. Remember, we will never run out of love as long as we keep on.
These inspiring love quotes will give you the edge you need to feed your heart.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
–Lucille Ball
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
–Audrey Hepburn
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
-Morrie Schwartz
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
-Roy Croft
I know I am in love with you because my reality is finally better than my dreams.
-Dr. Seuss
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
– Joan Powers
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
– Samuel Lover
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
-Maya Angelou
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
-Hermann Hesse
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
-George Sand
You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
-Albert Einstein
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
-Rumi
Where there is Love, There is Life.
To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
DLove is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
-Lao Tzu
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.
-Alfred Tennyson
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
-Marcus Aurelius
No matter how many fights you may get into, if you truly love someone it should never matter in the end.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
-Oscar Wilde
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
-Henry Miller
Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear..
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
-Buddha
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