“I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself.”
More from Maya Angelou on Love
“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
“Lovers think quite different thoughtswhile lying side by side.”
“When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.”
“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”
“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”
“If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.”
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.”
Leo Buscaglia
17 quotes“Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to lov...”
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.”
Mother Teresa
15 quotes“When you judge someone you have no time to love them.”
Nicholas Sparks
15 quotes“Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.”
John Donne
14 quotes“If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.”
Shakespeare
14 quotes“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”
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...”
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.”