Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes

It's easy to love people who love you.

We have so much love to give, and the more that we give, the more we receive.

I can only give away the love that I have received.

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

He who gives love will receive a thousandfold in return.

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.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise.

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

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.

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

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

And love can come to everyone, the best things in life are free.

There is no limit to the power of loving.

We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

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.

Spirituality, for me, is acquiring and giving happiness without hurting anyone.

There is just one reason that we are placed on this Earth. That reason is to love and be loved - in that order.

... only love begets love.

Love is pure and kind and forgiving. It is the greatest gift of all.