Izaak Walton Quotes

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 New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

He who gives love, receives love.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.