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2. The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There’s nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

George W. Bush

3. To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

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4. True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

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5. Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

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6. The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.

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7. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get–only with what you are expecting to give–which is everything.

Katherine Hepburn

8. Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

9. Love, true love, is that which can give the most without asking or demanding anything in return.

Mazie Hammond

10. Love… What is love? Love is to love someone for who they are, who they were, and who they will be.

Chris Moore

11. Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another’s personhood.

Karen Casey

12. The rule of unconditional love; it is in the giving that you make the other person realize.

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13. Unconditional Love: 9 months of pregnancy and a lifetime of tender loving care.

- SOL

14. Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

- Ann Brashares

15. Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

― Rainer Maria Rilke

16. Soul mates aren’t perfect people. They can come into your life and provide polar emotional experiences from intense love to intense pain. Growth comes from both. And a soul mate helps you grow. It isn’t just “…and they lived happily ever after” but “…and they lived!”

- Lori Chidori Phillips

17. It should be a privilege to be able to say “I love you” to someone. It shouldn’t be something people say just because they feel like it. A privilege that is earned. They say you have to earn the right to be loved; no, love is unconditional, if you love someone, they don’t have to earn it. But. The right to tell someone that you love them? That has to be earned. You have to earn the right to be believed.

― C. JoyBell C

18. Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.

― Isabel Allende

19. When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.

― Mitch Albom

20. The only way love can last a lifetime is if it’s unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.

― Stephen Kendrick

21. What it’s like to be a parent: It’s one of the hardest things you’ll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

― Nicholas Sparks

22. Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, “you owe me.” Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.

- Hafiz of Shiraz

23. In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men’s writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother’s love.

- Lisa See