David Deida Quotes

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

I don't know how not to share.

Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense.

Remember that you don't choose love; love chooses you. All you really can do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing then reach out and give it away.

You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let yourself go and be in love. You've got to be strong enough for that.

Wherever I find love I will accept it.

Generosity is as much showing your vulnerability as it is your passion for something.

I give people my heart right away, I trust them, and I'm loyal.

You got to be able to love again. You got to give everybody a fair chance. Everybody deserves a fair chance. I'm talking about building that wall, coming out of a relationship and feeling like, well, I'm going to hold back. You turn into your ex. When you find a person that's worth letting your wall down , and you feel it in your stomach, just don't fight it. Just let it happen.

True bravery is being exactly who you are, imperfections included. Vulnerability is the most precious gift you can give.

You must be willing to give total unconditional love to everyone, under all circumstances. That means being willing to be totally responsible for what you do and how you do it.

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

When falling in love I think you should say to yourself, ‘I am going to do this fully.’ I love to the fullest extent that I possibly can - and why not?... Maybe this means there is going to be pain, but I am willing to accept the pain.

I gave you things I wasn't sure I even had.

Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away.

Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the windroaring and whimpering in the rooms.

The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.

As a body in a world, here is our choice: we can be more loving or less loving. That's it. We can relax as the entire moment's show of love's swirl, feeling open as all--a vicious rainstorm, tweeting birds, our lover's lips, a sense of worthlessness-- or we can close to some aspect of experience, pulling away as if we were separate.

As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.

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

Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

At this time in my life, I want to be giving to my relationships. And out of that, whatever work you do prospers because you have more to give. There's something very primal about giving birth. It puts you in a state of being very raw.

Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.

When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.

Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.