Loveability Quotes

“Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it. D. H. Lawrence1”
― Robert Holden, Loveability: Knowing How to Love and Be Loved

“All the happiness, health, and abundance you experience in life comes directly from your ability to love and be loved. This ability is innate, not acquired.”
― Robert Holden, Loveability: Knowing How to Love and Be Loved

“You can only be held back by your past if you use it to reject yourself in the present. Your”
― Robert Holden, Loveability: Knowing How to Love and Be Loved

“Biologists will teach us that the survival of the species depends on cooperation, not competition.”
― Robert Holden, Loveability: Knowing How to Love and Be Loved

“I like to think of the word love as a door. If you only look at the door, all you get is an idea about what love is; but if you are willing to move closer to the door, to open it, and to walk on through, you get to have an experience of what love is. To be intimate with love, you have to move beyond words, leave behind self-concepts, empty your mind of learned ideas, stop being so religious, and let yourself dissolve into love. Now we are really getting somewhere. Now, at last, we can stop trying to define love, and we can let”
― Robert Holden, Loveability: Knowing How to Love and Be Loved

“John Steinbeck wrote in East of Eden: “The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears.”
― Robert Holden, Loveability: Knowing How to Love and Be Loved

“Love offers us the most perfect soil for growth.” Leo Buscaglia”
― Robert Holden, Loveability: Knowing How to Love and Be Loved

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” David Viscott”
― Robert Holden, Loveability: Knowing How to Love and Be Loved

“The principal effect of fear is that it prevents you from seeing where love is present, whereas love helps you to see where you are afraid. Love makes you conscious. It switches a light on in your mind. This light brings everything into view. You can see into every corner of your mind. Love does not judge, so nothing is hidden. Love does not condemn, so there is no deception. Love does not censure, so all is revealed. Love exposes the fears you identify with, the secret shame you haven’t forgiven, the old wounds not yet released, and every other unloving thought that blocks the awareness of love’s presence.”
― Robert Holden, Loveability: Knowing How to Love and Be Loved

“the truth remains that whether someone loves you or not has no bearing on how loveable you really are. Your childhood is not the last chapter in your story. Your first love is not your only love. Your greatest heartache is not the whole story of your life. Your parents are not God. An unhappy past, no matter how terrible, is not a reason to say “I am not loveable,” nor is it a reason to stop loving yourself. Actually, it is a reason to love yourself more. You can only be held back by your past if you use it to reject yourself in the present. Your life is a love story. It is the story of how much you”
― Robert Holden, Loveability: Knowing How to Love and Be Loved

“I ask you to consider that the goal of your life is not just to find love; it is to be love. Love is the real work of your life.”
― Robert Holden, Loveability: Knowing How to Love and Be Loved

“Love brings up everything unlike itself so that you can let go of fear and be the loving person you truly are.”
― Robert Holden, Loveability: Knowing How to Love and Be Loved