Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return. All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return? He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?

Try to love others and serve others and hopefully find those who love and serve you in return.

The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.

People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you.

If you want honesty and love, you have to be honest and loving and loveable.

It's easy to love people who love you.

Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.

Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.

I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.

…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.

My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness.

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

The most important thing that I know about living is love. Nothing surpasses the benefits received by a human being who makes compassion and love the objective of his or her life. For it is only by compassion and love that anyone fulfills successfully their own life’s journey. Nothing equals love.

The way to fill your life with love is very simple: if you want more love, give more love.

Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.

It requires less skill to love than to be loved.

When you're all alone, love one another.

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.

The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.

Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love.

It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.