Unconditional Love Quotes and Sayings
Over 35 Unconditional Love Quotes and Sayings
1. Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
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.
3. To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
4. True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
5. Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
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.
7. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
8. Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
9. Love, true love, is that which can give the most without asking or demanding anything in return.
10. Love … What is love? Love is to love someone for who they are, who they were, and who they will be.
11. Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another’s personhood.
12. The rule of unconditional love; it is in the giving that you make the other person realize.
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.
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.
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.
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
24. If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.
– Criss Jami
25. Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I’d like to see you be or do. I have no desire to foresee you, only to discover you. You can’t disappoint me.
– Mary Haskell
26. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
27. The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
28. The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
– Brian Tracy
29. A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won’t be too bad.
– Robert Wagner
30. My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all – the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.
– Mitt Romney
31. When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.
– Tony Parsons
32. Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.
– Naveen Jain
33. The moment you expect something its business, not love.
– Swami Parthasarathy
34. We have an unlimited capacity to love. The only thing that limits our capacity to love are the conditions we place on loving.
– Iyanla Vanzant
35. Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
– Peace Pilgrim
36. If you become a person who could love unconditionally, everyone you love would flower before your very eyes.
– Ram Dass, Love is the most powerful medicine
37. Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.
– Buddha
38. Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
– Author Unknown
39. True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.
– Steven Aitchison
40. True love is a love of giving, not a love of receiving.
– Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski
41. The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love. (Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life)
– Glennon Melton
42. You want my opinion? We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.
– Robert Fulghum, True Love, 1998
43.If we help someone in the hope of getting something in return, this is not giving but lending. True giving is done without expecting anything in return. It also means we relinquish control over what we have given.
– Haemin Sunim, The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down
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44. “When do I know
if I really love her?”
asked the boy
and the old man smiled,
“When it’s no longer
a question.”
– Atticus
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45. I know now that love is the ability to hold someone through all their changes, not too tightly but the way the sky holds the sun.
– Mark Nepo