Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where I fell in love with Marilyn Monroe. I knew that she was the most beautiful woman in the world, and yet she was in pain, in need. She was unhappy. I believed that I could help her.

We weren't raised to take, we were raised to give the shirt off our back to anyone in need.

Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life...all of our life.

Giving love is the real beautiful experience, because then you are an emperor.

Our life depends on others so much that at the root of our existence is a fundamental need for love. That is why it is good to cultivate an authentic sense of responsibility and concern for the welfare of others.

Love isn't love until you give it away.

Love looks around to see who is in need

You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love.

The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.

The cry for love and communion and for recognition that rises from the hearts of people in need reveals the fountain of love in us and our capacity to give life.

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable

Never refuse any who ask you for help; if your pockets are empty, give them hope. Your every action must be born of kindness, your every word spoken with love. Live as God would have you live, and others will be inspired to do the same.

In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand.

Try to feel and give only love and compassion to every one; you will be happy. Don't judge or hate anything. You will be unhappy.

He who gives love will receive a thousandfold in return.

If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain.

There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.

A compassion swirled form nowhere in the high I was lost in. She needed me. She needed me to accept her for what she was. And when I realized that I had it within myself to give her at least this small part of me, the last of my fear melted away.

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you...yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.

We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close like a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. Would you rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror and here are the stones.

You can't expect people to give you the things you love, unless you know how to ask.