Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.

Love revels in and grows in the moment and the joy of the moment.

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart

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

One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.