Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Love is about openness; closing yourself off leaves you isolated.
- In plain terms
- Keeping your heart open allows love in; closing it keeps you alone.
- What can you take from it?
- Stay open to love to avoid isolation.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How open are you to new connections?
- What keeps you closed off?
Another view
Being too open can sometimes lead to vulnerability or exploitation.
More from Leo Buscaglia
Love is always changing and unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.
Permalink to quote #64 Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failur…
Permalink to quote #66 Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
Permalink to quote #63
Related quotes
How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person on the other end shouts back 'What?'
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger quote #30 The two of you start talking about your feelings and your feelings float outside of you like vapors, and they mix together like a fog. Before you realize it, t…
Douglas CouplandDouglas Coupland quote #42 Two lovers, here at the corner, by the steeple, Two lovers blow together like music blowing: And the crowd dissolves about them like a sea. Recurring waves of …
Conrad AikenConrad Aiken quote #46