Top 100 Love Is Giving Quotes
#1. Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time
Kevin Heath
#2. Love is giving the world away, and being loved is having the whole world to give.
Emily Henry
#3. Pure love is giving without the mind of having given. This is true love, compassion and virtue.
Woo Myung
#4. Human love is needing the other one. Divine love is giving to the other one.
Lester Levenson
#5. Love is giving up control. It's surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two - love and controlling power over the other person - are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.
Rob Bell
#6. Love is giving and it has nothing to do with what you receive.
Wayne Dyer
#7. Love is giving up your needs for the sake of someone else, in some other words its sacrifice
Isaac Hanson
#8. Love is giving someone what they need most, when they deserve it least, at great personal cost to yourself.
Chip Ingram
#9. Love is giving someone the power to completely destroy you, and hoping that they won't
Suzanne Wright
#10. Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.
Jacques Lacan
#11. I know that love is giving yourself to someone else. Giving yourself to someone without losing yourself
Tiffany Reisz
#12. Love is giving without desiring, it's giving without requiring, but know that it will be returned. Maybe not as expected, but as needed
Gerald Mills
#13. The definition of love is giving.
Bai Ling
#14. Love is giving someone everything on your plate; saying to them that you are full when you aren't. I could be better at that. I'm pretty good at giving, but I don't say, "I'm full." My wife does that all the time with many things, and it's why I love her.
Chad Urmston
#15. Love is giving someone the power to destroy you but trusting they won't.
Mpho Koaho
#16. Maybe that's what love is. Giving others the power to hurt you and trusting that they'll use it to heal you instead.
C.J. Redwine
#17. Love is giving with no expectations ... Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.
Bernie Siegel
#18. Lots of people think that love is giving flowers or chocolates, or taking walks in the moonlight, but for me that's all just decoration. Love is much more profound and true than that; it's being able to really take care of the other person.
Amanda Laneley
#19. Love lifts you up. Love is giving and kindness. Love is encouraging. Love is healing. If these things do not surround you, you are in the wrong relationship.
Elizabeth Bourgeret
#20. Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain.
Rajneesh
#21. Love is giving the people ye love what is best for them, Bav, no' what is best for ye. It doesna matter if it rips yer heart out by the roots first. Ye've never learned tha', no' in yer thousand thousands of years, and ye never will.
Heather R. Blair
#23. True love is giving, not getting. Someone has said, "Love can always wait to give, but lust can never wait to get.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#25. Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.
Margaret Atwood
#26. Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving.
Crystal Waters
#27. What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, all its poetry and all its charity, to the unexpected as it comes along, to the stranger as he passes.
Charles Baudelaire
#29. The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.
Anne Lamott
#30. I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment is different and unique and wonderful.
William P. Young
#31. Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.
Anna Letitia Barbauld
#32. To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little, long.
Edward Young
#33. The formula of life is simple. It is the formula of giving - giving courage, attention, peace, love and comfort to yourself and the society.
Amit Ray
#34. The Jivanmukta ('the living free' or one who knows) alone is able to give real love, real charity, real truth, and it is truth alone that makes us free.
Swami Vivekananda
#35. 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.
Sylvia Day
#36. The real currency of life is not money but love. Real success comes not from earning but from giving.
Debasish Mridha
#37. Love respects the other. It is a give-and-take relationship. Love enjoys giving, and love enjoys taking. It is a sharing, it is a communication. Both are equal in love; in a sexual relationship both are not equal. Love has a totally different beauty to it.
Rajneesh
#38. In my opinion, the ability to love another person is one of God's greatest gifts, and I thank God every day for enabling me to give and share love with the people in my life.
Anderson Cooper
#39. When you love someone, what they want is the best that you
can give them.
Marshall Sylver
#40. My strongest quality as an actor is taking direction. I will give my performance as a template and if the director gives any instruction, I take that information, process it and morph it into the next take. I love the feeling I get when nailing a scene through direction.
James Preston Rogers
#41. You see them," James said. "The way they all love one another. I used to think everyone loved that way. The way it is in fairy tales. I used to think that love was giving and generous and good.
Cassandra Clare
#42. Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.
Gabrielle Reece
#43. It's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made love to my records so what I've delivered this time is an album about sex. Pretty much every song has that theme. Straight no chasers, it's booty music!
Tyrese Gibson
#44. The First and Worst sin couples commit against one another is not adultery but Negligence because it's Negligence that breeds adultery..watch it couples , do not hold back in giving that care and attention.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#45. It is an irony that the more possessive you are, the more love you demand, the less you receive, while the more freedom you give, the less you demand, the more love you will receive.
Harold H. Bloomfield
#46. If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die.
Nhat Hanh
#47. All we have to do is to receive what we are given ... We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
Vernon Howard
#48. Money is not the only commodity that is fun to give. We can give time, we can give our expertise, we can give our love or simply give a smile. What does that cost? The point is, none of us can ever run out of something worthwhile to give.
Steve Goodier
#49. Selfless giving does not imply superiority. Selfless giving is about love.
Frederick Lenz
#50. Extravagant love, as in every generation before us, has been ridiculed and scorned. it is seen as wasteful and reckless overspending. But extravagant love, the offering of everything, the emptying of the pockets of our life, is the essence of true Christianity.
Eric Ludy
#51. I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.
Elizabeth Strout
#52. Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.
George Santayana
#53. For to love is to give what one is, his very being, in the most absolute, the most brazenly metaphysical, the least phenomenalizable sense of this word.
Jacques Maritain
#54. Selfless giving is love in action. Initially you will feel that you should help in a certain way, with a certain result. Do your best, but don't be concerned with results; do it for the infinite.
Frederick Lenz
#55. A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
George Eliot
#56. Love is a gift. You give love and that's where the joy is.
Nicholas Sparks
#57. Peace of mind is another way of saying that you've learned how to love, that you have come to appreciate the importance of giving love in order to be worthy of receiving it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#58. This is not what you want to hear, but to me, it doesn't seem there was a time before I loved you. And though I try to keep my distance from you ... even now you keep giving me reasons to love you more.
Cayla Kluver
#59. The beauty of love is that in giving it away, you are left with more than you had before.
David Simon
#60. Follow your heart and what it's saying,
after you die, an when you live.
What he/ she lives is what she/he is giving to you .
Enjoy it and you'll be happy.
Love isn't a game ,love is a portrait, of a beautiful butterfly flapping it's wings to the horizon.
Avis
#61. To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to damn oneself, and to exile oneself to hell.
Eliphas Levi
#62. Assuming is a form of giving away your power to another regarding an outcome that concerns you.
Molly Friedenfeld
#63. How we live our lives gives those we love permission to do the same. That is a power and a responsibility that we can never take lightly.
Hal Elrod
#64. Love is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being,
Ellen Page
#65. Baking may be regarded as a science, but it's the chemistry between the ingredients and the cook that gives desserts life. Baking is done out of love, to share with family and friends, to see them smile.
Anna Olson
#66. For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
Iggy Azalea
#68. What's given to dunya is lost forever. What's
given to Allah is never lost. If you give what
you love, for the sake of what He loves, you'll
have what you love forever.
Yasmin Mogahed
#69. If halfway love is all you want or all you care to give, why bother with love at all and only halfway live.
Marty Robbins
#70. No one can master love through force. It is only by giving in to such a powerful energy that we can learn more of who we really are.
Timothy Moran
#71. Love is the time and space where "I" give myself the right to be extraordinary.
Julia Kristeva
#72. love
is giving everything too easily
then staying to try and claw it back
Andrew McMillan
#73. 131/ Writing a novel is like having a baby. I know because I've had both, and the experiences were hellish. By comparison, the torture of the damned - plunged into excrement, boiled in blood, beheaded, set upon by harpies - are like love nips from your yippy little dog.
Kim Addonizio
#74. Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes.
Wilferd Peterson
#75. He waits.
And I think that is what I would like love to be. Leaving room for each other, knowing that not every step is going to be side by side.
Giving more than taking. Waiting. Trusting,
Amy Garvey
#76. It is Love that gives joy to happiness.
Rumi
#77. The highest form of charity is giving education with love.
Debasish Mridha
#78. Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self.
Bel Kaufman
#79. What we think of as the soul is just a mingling of genetics and our parents, in my case, slowly torturing me, or in your case giving you complete unconditional love.
Sarah Ruhl
#80. At this moment, life is trying to love you and give to you in a million wonderful ways. When you say Yes, you allow love to flow, which is the greatest gift you can give yourself and the universe ... What do you want that you could be more open to receiving?
Alan Cohen
#82. The truth is that our wellbeing is dependent on our giving love. It is not about what comes back; it is about what goes out!
Jack Canfield
#83. Food is one part. Love is another part. So, the food will give them physical nutrition. The love and affection which you show, will give them mental nutrition.
Narayan
#85. There is nothing better than giving up everything and stepping into a passionate love relationship with God, the God of the universe who made galaxies, leaves, laughter, and me and you.
Francis Chan
#86. We are faithful as long as we love, but you
demand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving of
herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel there
woman or man?
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#87. To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst.
Frank Frankfort Moore
#88. Marriage is not 50-50. Divorce is 50-50. Marriage has to be 100-100. It isn't dividing everything in half, but giving everything you've got!
Dave Willis
#89. For if I am to love truly and freely, I must be able to give something that is truly my own to another. If my heart does not first belong to me, how can I give it to another?
Thomas Merton
#90. Love is a way of being, not something you give. When a person is truly loving, he is love.
Deepak Chopra
#91. I love getting attention, just like a child loves it, and it's never worn off. So when people say, oh the book signings go on, why would I shoo away someone who's giving me attention? What part of standing in line for 10 hours to say how much they love you is bad to you?
David Sedaris
#92. I am happiest when I am working though, when I am being creative. I realized at a very young age what I loved doing. I think it is so important for people to pursue the things that they love and not give up on their dreams.
Josh Peck
#93. A single mom tries when things are hard. She never gives up. She believes in her family, even when things are tough. She knows that above all things ... a mother's love is more than enough.
Deniece Williams
#94. Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for." In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.
Erich Fromm
#95. It is the season of giving, a season of love, 'For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whosoever believe in Him should not perish, have everlasting life,' (John 3:16).
Euginia Herlihy
#96. And yet, if it all went away tomorrow, I know I would still have peace. That probably sounds crazy to most people, but that's the kind of peace Christ gives. It is rooted in His love, and it surpasses all understanding.
Tim Howard
#97. This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.
Henri Nouwen
#98. The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
Daddy Yankee
#99. Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.
Thomas Head Raddall
#100. 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.
Elbert Hubbard
