Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.

You can't force people to love you. If you love somebody, you love them because you love them. People who love you, it doesn't matter; if you're good or bad, they will still love you.

When you come from 'love,' you do certain things because you are love, not because you want to have love.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.

Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

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.

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

Love is what's left when being in love is gone, okay? It's when you care about someone and you hope they're happy, but you're not under any illusions about them. Maybe that kind of love is not exciting and passionate and all those things that fade with time. All those things that you're so keen on. But in the end it's the only kind of love that really matters.

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

...you showed me what love truly is just by giving yours so selflessly. I wasn't made for love. It wasn't [woven]into the fabric of my being. I didn't know what it was, what I was looking for, what I needed. I had no point of reference, no examples, nothing. Until you.

True love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good.

Love does not want or fear anything.

If you truly love someone, then the only thing you want for them is to be happy....even if its not with you.

Love is always freely given. Love cannot be demanded. We can request things of each other, but we must never demand anything. Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love.