What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated. -Leo Buscaglia

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon. -Leo Buscaglia

A bell is no bell 'til you ring it
A song is no song 'til you sing it
And love in your heart wasn't put there to stay
Love isn't love till you give it away. -Oscar Hammerstein II

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away. -Elbert Hubbard

Some people never say the words "I love you"
It's not their style to be so bold.
Some people never say those words "I love you"
But, like a child, they're longing to be told... -Paul Simon, Something So Right

All of the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. -James Russell Lowell

Love seeketh not itself to please,
but for another gives its ease. -William Blake

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. -Goethe

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. -William Wordsworth

When you put loving thoughts and behavior into the world, you plant seeds of self-respect. When you put unloving thoughts and behavior into the world, you destroy seeds of self-respect. -Susan Jeffers, Dare To Connect

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. -George Eliot

The loving are the daring. -Bayard Taylor