Arthur Helps Quotes

I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.

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

As in all areas, we can improve how good we are at loving another person.

At City, we don't just have successful people: we have great human beings who know that family is paramount.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

The best choices will always be the most loving.

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is 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.

There's a love that I want to continue to offer people. And, I hope I can offer people that love through the art.

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

My laundry list of wants in a partner is basically kindness. I want someone who is kind, and that's kind of where it begins and ends. I'm open to being surprised.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Above all, there is Mother. She taught me how to love, how to have respect for other people.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

We can only learn to love by loving.

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

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

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.