“Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.”
More from Leo Buscaglia on Love
“Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both”
“To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness”
“Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.”
“I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate — it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.”
“A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.”
“Happiness and love are just a choice away.”
“Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.”
“Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.”
“Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.”
“I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.”
Others on Love
Atticus Poetry
20 quotes“I’ll let you into my heart but wipe your feet at the door.”
Pablo Neruda
19 quotes“You are like nobody since I love you.”
Lord Byron
16 quotes“I have not loved the world nor the world me I have not flatter'd its rank breath nor bow'd To its idolatries a patien...”
Khalil Gibran
16 quotes“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Nicholas Sparks
15 quotes“Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.”
Mother Teresa
15 quotes“When you judge someone you have no time to love them.”
John Donne
14 quotes“If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.”
Rumi
14 quotes“There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension...”
Shakespeare
14 quotes“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”
Balzac
13 quotes“The more a man judges, the less he loves”
Gabriel García Márquez
13 quotes“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
12 quotes“You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.”