Best 34 quotes in «being loved quotes» category

To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside

It's very hard, for most of us to tolerate being loved.

Mature love is loving, not being loved.

Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us.

There's no misery in not being loved, only in not loving.

The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish.

Perhaps being hated in the right way is preferable to being loved in the wrong one.

We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.

I’m not normal. I see people hurt in love and I want to hug them and tell them it’s going to be okay. That they need to keep that broken heart open. Because there’s nothing else really that matters beyond loving and being loved.

What uneasiness lies in being loved.

Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

Being loved is the problem, because love is a demand - when you're loved, someone wants more of you.

Loving is giving and being loved is receiving. Loving should not depend on being loved, but to all intents and purposes, your commitment in a relationship is grossly expressed by how much of yourself you share with your partner.

Living loved, we relax our expectations, our efforts, our strivings, our rules, our spine, our breath, our plans, our job descriptions and checklists; we step off the treadmill of the world and the treadmill of religious performance. We are not the authors of our redemption.

Many people think that love represents chains, bondage, the opposite of freedom. But people who believe such things are simple-minded creatures who have been lied to, and who easily accept the general trend of the lie. It is in fact love that is the only thing powerful enough to set one free from even the most deeply-embedded and thoroughly-wound chains of the soul, the mind, and the body. The fact is that we are born into chains and born into bondages; these things are put upon us by fear, pain and doubt. When you are thoroughly loved by someone in mind and in heart, this has the power to set you so free, more free than you have ever been before. And that is because freedom is not the equivalent of detachment. Freedom is the equivalent of that which sets you free. And when someone loves you the way that only they can, that is what sets you free.

Once someone loves you that much, loves you more than you deserve, you can’t go back to being loved the normal way.

Now do you understand why it's so important for you to grasp your belovedness? God won't change the world through angels or through ideas; He will change the world through His sons and daughters. If you don't know who you are, if you don’t know your true identity, you won't touch others on His behalf.

Many times in the Old Testament, God refers to human beings as His beloved. But when God called Jesus His beloved, Jesus did something truly remarkable: He believed Him. And He lived every moment of His life fully convinced of His identity.

To be loved and to love, takes courage. To be fully seen is incredibly rare and breathtaking. We lower our masks and see a celestial inner being. It is our full self -- the supernova as well as the black holes. Our fears and doubts. Our anger and joy...This is love.

Stop wearing that mask that is trying to be a match for everybody, and realise that you have to have more of a 1s and 10s model. A 1s and 10s model means that if you want to be a 10 for somebody you have to risk being a 1 for somebody else. [...] You wanna express who you really are.

We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.” I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.

Ultimately, everything we do is merely in hopes of being loved or spreading it.

You will never be lost to me, Selinne.

When our hearts, minds, and souls are deep within the reality of living loved, we discover that most of those "rules" from Sunday school are simply our new characteristics and our family traits. They are the fruit born of a meaningful, life-changing relationship—they are the flowers of life in the Vine.

When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.

Being loved is a good thing. A grand thing. The best damned thing of all.

and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.

Being loved is life's second greatest blessing; loving is the greatest.

Being loved keeps you young.

Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.

But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.

God loves us. May we discover the beauty of loving and being loved.

God's love does not love that which is worthy of being loved, but it creates that which is worthy of being loved.