A quote by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
Your path is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself you have built against it. • Rumi
Tara Brach • Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
Love is not a beggar’s bowl. Love is a deep well connected to life itself. The more it flows through you, the more it transforms you, and the more you receive in return.
Kamal Ravikant • Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It: The positive self-help phenomenon
The first thing to be understood is that if love becomes an attachment, you were just in an illusion that it was love. You were just fooling yourself and thinking that this was love. Really, you were in need of attachment. And if you go still deeper, you will find that you were also in need of becoming a slave.
Osho • Love, Freedom, and Aloneness: On Relationships, Sex, Meditation, and Silence
Maybe you even believe that in order to receive love you must keep giving, as if love is something that must be earned.