Quotes on Being Loved

Even more important than the warmth and affection we receive, is the warmth and affection we give. It is by giving warmth and affection, by having a genuine sense of concern for others, in other words through compassion, that we gain the conditions for genuine happiness. More important than being loved, therefore, is to love.

The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.

God loves us. May we discover the beauty of loving and being loved.

The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

But when it comes to being loved, she's first/That's how I know_x000D_ _x000D_ The first cut is the deepest.

You cannot experience the fullness of your authentic self or life when you live to avoid hurt. You will never know the joy of love or the peaceful satisfaction of being loved if you hide from hurt.

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.

You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.