receiving love Quotes

I wish somebody had told me love does not die, that we can continue to receive and give love after death.

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!

This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.

Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.

The Open Hearts design was inspired by my Mom's advice that only when you keep your heart open can you best give and receive love. My hope is that the design will become a universal symbol of keeping an open heart - open to life's new experiences, open to allow something new and beautiful to come in.

Gratitude is a two fold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.

Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.

A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.

I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will have to do with feelings of loving and being loved - friends, family, teachers, shopkeepers - whoever's been close to you. As you continue to grow, you'll find many ways of expressing your love and you'll discover more and more ways in which others express their love for you.

From the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what he does but through what he accepts. He must wait for the gift of love, and love can only be received as a gift... One must wait for it, let it be given to one. And one cannot become wholly man in any other way than by being loved, by letting oneself be loved... If he declines to let himself be presented with the gift, then he destroys himself.

To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

If you're giving love and not receiving it, you're not in the right relationship. If you're receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person.

If we can say, "I loved, and I received a lot of love," then great. That's enough.

Make love, take love, but you should give love. And try to live love.

The amount of God's love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.

The way to fill your life with love is very simple: if you want more love, give more love.

The art of love-giving and taking become one.

As I learn to love myself, I recieve the love I desire from others.

In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not want to do the work that love demands. When the practice of love invites us to enter a place of potential bliss that is at the same time a place of critical awakening and pain, many of us turn our backs on love.

You are loved, and your purpose is to love.

Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out. When you can't change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you.

If you wished to be loved, love.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.