Louise Hay Quotes

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

I do believe in doing the work and getting yourself together because love can be right in your face, but if you're not ready to receive it, it will be wasted.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

If you want honesty and love, you have to be honest and loving and loveable.

Human beings need to feel that they are lovable and capable of loving.

Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable.

Love is everywhere, and I am loving and lovable.

Opening your heart and being courageous and telling people that you care about them or like them or that you think they're special only makes you a better, bigger, kinder, softer, more loving person, and only attracts more love into your life.

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

At this moment, life is trying to love you and give to you in a million wonderful ways. When you say Yes, you allow love to flow, which is the greatest gift you can give yourself and the universe . . . What do you want that you could be more open to receiving?

If I stand alone, It does not mean, I am any less a Human, If my arms do not hold another, It does not mean, They are incapable of holding, If my tongue is silent, And never speaks the words of Love, It does not mean, That it will be mute, When the time comes, That the words can sincerely be spoken. And just because the World, Has not yet introduced, The one that will share my Life, It certainly does not mean, That I am incapable, Of Loving.

There's no misery in not being loved, only in not loving.

I measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lo veable.

Today I will tell myself that I'm lovable. Just because some people haven't been able to love me in ways that worked doesn't mean that I'm unlovable. I've had lessons to learn, and some of them have hurt deeply, but I can still love, and I still am loved.

Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive.

Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love.

There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it.

Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.

Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)

I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen.

I am giving myself permission to love - ALL of it.

Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you.

Find new treasures in yourself. Love doesn't die. Love is unyielding. It's going to come back. The more you love and appreciate yourself, the more prepared you are when the real thing shows up.

The more mature we are, the more receptive we are.