Sara Teasdale Quotes

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

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.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

Being in love is all about the ability to give rather than take. It is not easy, but if you can accept this, then you will experience love.

The beauty of love is that in giving it away, you are left with more than you had before.

You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.

It's easy to say, 'I love you,' to someone, but it's more meaningful to thank someone for loving you.

We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.

Love goes unappreciated a lot of times, but you still gotta keep giving it.

Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you.

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

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

Lavish love on others receive it gratefully when it come to you. Cultivate friendship like a garden. It is the best love of all.

The secret of loving is living loved.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

The love received is the love that is saved.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

I love getting stuff, and if I give a present to someone and don't get one back, you can bet your life they won't be getting one next year.

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