Langston Hughes Quotes

Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

I feel I have this joy in my heart. I just want to make people feel.

My future is about the joy of loving those around me, of being with the people who are still here and not just mourning my loss.

There is no greater enjoyment than that of sharing something. Have you given something to somebody? That's why people enjoy giving gifts so much. It is a sheer delight. When you give something to somebody - maybe valueless, may not be of much value - but just the way, just the gesture that you give, satisfies tremendously. Just think of a person whose whole life is a gift! whose every moment is a sharing - he lives in heaven. There is no other heaven than that.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

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.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

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!

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