Lisa Scottoline Quotes

Love is more important than what we can take...Please say with me three times-Love! Love! Love!

You have to think with the heart.

When we love and want nothing but good for that person, it's one of the greatest gifts we possess.

Love is the opposite of [lust]: respecting the other as an end unto himself or herself. When you love someone as an end unto himself, then there is no feeling of hurt; you become enriched through it. Love makes everybody rich.

Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.

Love has been called the most effective motivational force in all the world. When love is at work in us, it is remarkable how giving and forgiving, understanding and tolerant we can be.

Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.

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.

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!

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

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

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.

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

I spread love wherever I'm at. I'm like Marvin Gaye.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

One who has no love in his heart will try to possess everything for himself. One who has love in his heart is ready to sacrifice everything, including his own body, for the benefit of others.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.

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

Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.