Alice Walker Quotes

Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn't have to.

If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

The best proof of love is trust.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

'Made' is about opening your heart to people who deserve your love and not trying to turn other people into something that they're not: not trying to save people who don't want to be saved. If you go down that dark path, you're not going to end up doing any good.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

I love you if you love me.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

I still believe in love, most definitely. I'm just going to let that take the lead.

You just make yourself available to be full of love. And to be truthful and honest, 100 percent.

Trust is the first step to love.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

You can love someone but not want to keep a gift from that person. It's okay to pass an item along to someone who will appreciate it more.

Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that.

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.

The thing I really love about my fans is the vulnerability and openness, the crying and the hugs. They are so kind.