Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good looks and worthiness operate independently. Yet countless socializing forces, from Aunt Clara to the latest perfume ad, reinforce beliefs like 'If I were pretty enough, I would be loved.'