David Sedaris Quotes

Love others and as you do, that love will return to you.

It's easy to love people who love you.

If you love people, you'll enjoy your life. If you don't, you won't love anything you do.

If you wished to be loved, love.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two love, it is the loving of each other, that originates and perfects and assures their blessedness. I knew that love gives to him that loveth, power over any soul beloved, even if that soul know him not, bringing him inwardly close to that spirit; a power that cannot be but for good; for in proportion as selfishness intrudes, the love ceases, and the power which springs therefrom dies. Yet all love will, one day, meet with its return.

None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of world we live in.

You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.

One who has learned to love all people will find plenty of people who will return that love.

In business people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.

As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

You can't love someone unless they love you back.

I want everybody to love me because I want to love back.

Love is the biggest thing. I feel that if we all were truly loving to each other, I think life would be better. Even to like, a stranger. They could be going through something crazy in their day and just to show love towards that person.

I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.

It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them

The purpose of life is to be loved by as many people as possible among those you want to have love you

You will find when you open your heart and can fill it with loving, beautiful thoughts, that you will want to love all those souls you come into contact with, no matter who they are.

If we wait for some people to become agreeable or attractive before we begin to love them, we will never begin. If we are content to give them a cold impersonal 'charity' that is merely a matter of obligation, we will not trouble to understand them or to sympathize with them at all. And in that case we will not really love them, because love implies an efficacious will not only to do good to others exteriorly but also to find some good in them to which we can respond."

Sometime, It's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.

Love - the more you share with others, the more you have.