I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved… the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
George EliotLove
I guess we all want to be loved — It’s hard to say no to that; no matter who it’s coming from.
Ruth Fisher, Six Feet Under, Season IIILove
We don’t love qualities, we love persons…
Jacques MaritainLove
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay.
Robert G. IngersollLove
Love immediately challenges me to break the fixation I have with myself.
John Powell, S.J.Love
Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.
Bessie HeadLove
I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well: devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again.
Florida Scott-MaxwellLove
The sufferings of love should ennoble, not degrade.
George SandLove
Two persons love in one another the future good, which they aid one another to unfold.
Margaret FullerLove
Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius GordonLove
Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.
Hugh PratherLove
The abundant life appeals to us. Seldom do we want less money, fewer toys, clothes, or friends. In general, we want more of everything and still more—particularly of love. The truth is that the things we hoard or hide or fear losing must be shared or soon may be lost.
Giving love to a lover, a friend, or even a stranger will fill up our own empty spaces where love wants to be. And we’ll glow radiantly with the warmth that hovers on the heels of love expressed.
The pantry of the human heart is never bare when love is being served. We pass this way with one another, not by mere chance, but by design for the nourishment that is love.
Our greatest hope, to be loved, is ours when we’ve made that hope a reality for someone else.
Worthy of Love by Karen Casey, illustrated by David Spohn ©1985