Top 100 Quotes About To Love And Be Loved
#1. If someone would have asked him to describe that moment, he would have failed miserably. The only thing he knew was this is how it felt to love and be loved in return. Till now love as a feeling was alien to him but tonight he had witnessed its definitions in the most profound manner ever possible.
Namrata
#2. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. David Viscott
Robert Holden
#3. Deep in the recesses of her mind, she knew they were probably watching. They watched everything, after all.
Let them watch. Let them see what it meant to be human. To live.
Let them see what it meant to love, and be loved in return.
G.S. Jennsen
#4. The greatest gift on this planet is to love and be loved.
Don Chipp
#5. We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing of the human soul.
Dave Earley
#6. I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us
Marianne Williamson
#7. Fear does its best work in isolation. Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when you discover your self-worth had nothing to do with what you looked like.
Lynn Jones
#8. I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.
Meg Ryan
#9. To be recipient to God's love on earth is to share a deep, intrinsic need to love and be loved
Sunday Adelaja
#11. Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called jazz, there is a stepping-stone to all of these.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#12. To love and be loved is the very thing our souls scream for from birth and every moment after, the urge to need and be needed as natural as breathing, as life-giving as breath.
Lisa Wingate
#13. To love and be loved. That is the meaning of life.
Cheryl Strayed
#14. I want to love and be loved ... I don't want a world without love or grief or beauty. I'd rather die.
Daniel Mainwaring
#15. This is a tale of woe. This is a tale of sorrow. A love denied, a love restored, to live beyond tomorrow. Lest we think silence is the place to hide a heavy heart, remember, to love and be loved is life itself without which we are nought.
Abi Morgan
#18. We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.
Mother Teresa
#19. I think of what Mamey told me long ago: there are many ways to love and be loved. Too bad it's taken most of a lifetime for me to understand what that means.
Christina Baker Kline
#20. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
#21. You can rescue yourself. No matter how you feel, no matter what you believe about your worth or your capacity to love and be loved, you can change.
Geneen Roth
#22. Honestly, my deepest longing was to have a normal relationship, to love and be loved
Richelle Mead
#23. And I want to be loved. I want to love and be loved, and to be respected. I don't want someone to love me simply because I am a duke's daughter. I don't want a disinterested husband. I want someone who loves me passionately.
Melanie Dickerson
#24. While the priest prayed over me, I thought, "Friendship" was probably a good word to choose, after all. Without people to love and be loved by, I don't imagine faith is very sustainable.
Wesley Hill
#25. A romantic novel is an adult fairy story, repeating the recurring symbols and images which can explain life to a woman and satisfy a powerful need within her. The need to love and be loved is vital to all human beings, but especially to women.
Charlotte Lamb
#26. One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how we measure our lives.
Denise Di Novi
#27. It is sad indeed not to be loved or not have the ability to love, for to love and be loved is sheer happiness.
Grace Foakes
#28. Roopa reached that stage in love when a woman feels obliged to keep her love alive so as to sustain her belief in her ability to love and be loved.
BS Murthy
#29. The chance to love and be loved exists no matter who or where you are.
Oprah Winfrey
#30. All the happiness, health, and abundance you experience in life comes directly from your ability to love and be loved. This ability is innate, not acquired.
Robert Holden
#31. To love and be loved is the most natural expression of our being.
Deepak Chopra
#33. I wanted so much for us: a life free of constriction and prejudice. A life free to love and be loved.
E. Lockhart
#34. But sometimes [love] was just there: ... he was ... shocked to know he had been lucky to live and know it, to love and be loved.
Richard Flanagan
#35. Love isn't idiotic. It's hard and messy, confusing and wonderful. But to love and be loved... that's all that matters.
Jennifer Donnelly
#36. When you are committed to living a life in service to the most high, the choices to be great, to serve and be served, to love and be loved are apparent.
Debbie Ford
#37. When the whispers of fear and doubt start screaming inside of you, turn up the volume of your courage by focusing on your faith, energizing through example, living to learn, and learning to love and be loved better.
Connie Kerbs
#38. Life - it really did go on, even after insurmountable grief, debilitating sorrow and a life waiting to begin. As long as we were able to love and be loved in this world, no heart would ever be beyond repair.
J.L. Berg
#39. We should not expect everyone to be tough and not feel anything when offended. No one is meant to hate and be hated - we are all meant to love and be loved.
Auliq Ice
#40. To love and be loved is all we know and all we need to know.
Steven Tyler
#41. I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.
Jane Goodall
#42. To love, and be loved, this is the greatest challenge that any of us face in our lives.
T. Scott McLeod
#44. She was so desperate to love and be loved, she could sprout tender feelings toward a rock. And rocks didn't call her "bewitching" or "temptress." Rocks didn't have touchable golden brown hair.
But rocks and Ransom did have something in common.
Tessa Dare
#45. Prayer is such an ordinary, everyday, mundane thing. Certainly, people who pray are no more saints than the rest of us. Rather, they are people who want to share a life with God, to love and be loved, to speak and to listen, to work and to be at rest in the presence of God.
Roberta Bondi
#46. Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.
Jan Karon
#47. You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.
Matthew Thomas
#48. Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.
Basil Hume
#50. There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
#51. I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.
Louise Penny
#52. The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
Emma Goldman
#54. The meaning of life is to love and be loved, to find those who need a hand and offer one, and to fill the world with peace and joy.
Kirsten Osbourne
#55. On the most basic level, men and women are the same. We both need to love and be loved, to have someone we feel we matter to, and who matters to us.
David Angell
#56. I'm not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are like children, thinking our toys will make us happy and the whole world is our nursery. Something must drive us out of that nursery and into the lives of others, and that something is suffering.
C.S. Lewis
#57. To love and be loved is the most powerful of human needs
Clare Morgan
Mary Jo Putney
#58. The will to live is as strong as the will to love and be loved.
Tyler Perry
#59. The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
Baz Luhrmann
#60. And think it's funny how, now that I know what it means to love and be loved, I see it everywhere.
Laurelin Paige
#61. Do you not think we would be wiser to cherish each moment we have as God's gift? I would say 'tis better to love and be loved, if only for a day, than to have not loved at all.
Jody Hedlund
#62. To love and be loved, that is the miracle of youth
Victor Hugo
#63. Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.
Mother Teresa
#64. Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union brought them here. To lose that connection, that sense of identity, is to experience a wound that no child-support check or fancy school can ever heal.
David Blankenhorn
#65. Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.
Mother Teresa
#66. Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you're afraid of the other side of the coin
to love and be loved.
James A. Baldwin
#67. The greatest thing you'll learn is just to love and be loved in return - Eden Ahbez
Karla M. Nashar
#68. There are many lessons to learn. Naming just one is next to impossible. However, learning to love and be loved is a good starting point. It will encompass much.
Faith Hill
#69. All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to be accepted, cherished, and celebrated simply for being who we are. Is that so very difficult?
Derrick Jensen
#70. This maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
Edgar Allan Poe
#71. There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved.
Sebastian Faulks
#72. God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
E. Stanley Jones
#73. It takes a moment to love and be loved. Hours spent judging are a waste.
Parashar Pandya
#74. In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?
Joan Halifax
#75. The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.
Mother Teresa
#76. To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that's everything.
Themis Tolis
#77. Desperate need and hunger overpowered something more vulnerable; an aching desire to know me, all of me, and to be known. To love and be loved. It changed everything. My heart swelled and broke all at once as I recognized the familiar ache. An ache I'd buried long ago.
Deanna Chase
#78. We are born ready to love and be loved. It is our birthright.
Sharon Salzberg
#79. There lies the image of our past and of our future," cried Alleyne, as they rode on upon their way. "Now, which is better, to till God's earth, to have happy faces round one's knee, and to love and be loved, or to sit forever moaning over one's own soul, like a mother over a sick babe?" "I
Arthur Conan Doyle
#80. Wherever you go, in every country, on every continent, people yearn and hunger for one thing: to love and be loved.
Michael Jackson
#81. Our souls yearn for connection with all souls. There are people we think we prefer and others we don't, but half the time that's a lie: We tell ourselves the fairy tale of our hatreds out of fear, but we revisit that tale as it suits us. Deep down, we'd love to love and be loved by all.
Alexandra Katehakis
#82. We are supposed to do something with these/Damn hearts of ours, and we are meant to love and be loved.
Rob Bignell, Editor
#83. I heard what you said. I'm not the silly romantic you think. I don't want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don't want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want ... a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.
Shana Abe
#84. To seek enlightenment, intellectual or spiritual; to do good; to love and be loved; to create and to teach: these are the highest purposes of humankind. If there is meaning in life, it lies here.
George Monbiot
#85. I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.
Madonna
#86. Take time to love and be loved, for it is the greatest gift of life.
Pravin Agarwal
#87. What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?
Dorothy Day
#89. No one can put a price on how much you are worth. You're more precious than rubies and have been from birth. God made you to love and be loved beyond measure. Every girl is beautiful, a valuable treasure!
Nikki Rogers
#90. My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the position I take.
Nick Jonas
#91. She wanted me to love her... and stranger still, i wanted to love and be loved by her. Death had become romantic again.
J.D. Clair
#92. Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.
Jay McInerney
#94. I can say this: don't give up. Not on love but, more important still, not on you. Never let yourself believe that you are unlovable or flawed in any way. You deserve to be loved. You deserve kind words and an unwavering eye.
Menna Van Praag
#95. Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.
Frederick Buechner
#96. You want to be loved? Love yourself first and passionately. Forgive yourself readily. Care for every part of you. Only when you love yourself do you have love to give to others.
Toni Sorenson
#97. I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.
Lauryn Hill
#98. I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#99. You should know, I tried for many years not to be in love with you, but I failed. And I really did try very hard. But it was not possible, and it never has been, because I have actually loved you from very early in our relationship. Possibly as early as our first meeting.
Augusten Burroughs
#100. At the center of the universe, is a deep abiding love. We are called to be part of it. We Catholics and Christians are not ashamed to believe this. We invite everyone to accept the challenge to live as if we were all loved into existence.
Jennifer Morse
