Quotes on Being Loved

The answer is, of course, that it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved.

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Mature love is loving, not being loved.

I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. Grace is being loved when you are unlovable.

Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.