Audrey Hepburn Quotes

I'm now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.

Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.

No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.

One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

If you're going to love somebody, love somebody who needs it.

The door you open to give love is the very one through which love arrives.

To love and be loved is the most natural expression of our being.

…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.

Try to love others and serve others and hopefully find those who love and serve you in return.

The way to fill your life with love is very simple: if you want more love, give more love.

Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.

To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.

I did not need to know if he could love me. I needed to know if he could need me.

Make love, take love, but you should give love. And try to live love.

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.

We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment.

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?

Feel good about being someone who loves selflessly. I think someday you’ll find someone who loves you the exact same way.

You are loved, and your purpose is to love.