Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

Love should be all about giving and trusting.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Being in love is all about the ability to give rather than take. It is not easy, but if you can accept this, then you will experience love.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

What we share with another ceases to be our own.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

If you sit in a room and think you're the only one that needs to be loved, then you have a big problem. If you are needy, you have to give the same as you need. If I need love, I have to give love. But that's just a personal thing.

I think the thing about love is that even though the things around us change, we as human beings, a lot of the ways we interact, and the ways we love each other is timeless. It requires trust, honesty, commitment, romance, and physical chemistry.

If there's one thing I learned about being with someone, it's you have to be willing to give every drop of yourself. Both people need to sacrifice so much to make it work and most of my single friends they don't want to do that.

I think if you're in love, you're willing to do anything that comes with it.

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

Love supposes, is, and does many things, but basically it is practiced in the act of sharing.

It is not the nature of love to force a relationship, but it is the nature of love to open the way.

If we don’t risk being hurt, we cannot give unconditional love. Unconditional love gives others the right to hurt us.

You can begin really looking for a relationship . . . when you can (appreciate) the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.

To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough.

Love makes requests, not demands.

LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.