David Levithan Quotes

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.

Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.

I don't call them sacrifices. I call them exchanges.

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

If you love something, give it away...

When it comes to love, everyone wants to receive it, but at the end of the day, you don't get to receive it until you start to give it. That goes for everything. What you give is what you receive. If you want the drug, you have to give the drug.

Love without sacrifice is like theft

Every time you get something, give something away.

You've got to give away what you love.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

If I make a new bag I love, I don't keep it.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

You give before you get.

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

You can love someone but not want to keep a gift from that person. It's okay to pass an item along to someone who will appreciate it more.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

You have to give to be able to receive.

Gifts can incline great hearts.

You need to give to get. Give support to get it. Give praise to receive it. Give your best to get your wishes. Give more love to be beloved. Give to get.