Love and attention are synonymous

• Love is effortless attention. Guy Finley
• Love happens when we pay attention Declan Donnellan
• The greatest act of love is to pay attention. Diane Sawyer
• All humans need love, attention, and appreciation. Kyra Sedgwick
• Love is the quality of attention we pay to things. D. McClatchy
• Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time. Kevin Heath
• The first act of love is always the giving of attention. Dallas Willard
• Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love. Tara Brach
• Attention is at the heart of love and care and is the greatest gift you can give
• The best gift you can give someone you love is the purity of your full attention.
• Love means attention, which means looking after the things we love. George H. Morris
• If you have your full attention in the moment, you will see only love. Deepak Chopra
• Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Charles Stanley
• Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love. John Powell
• The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love. Red Auerbach
• Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends… Marge Piercy
• Pay attention; don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box. Jerry Seinfeld
• The greatest gift you can give someone is your time, your attention, your love, your concern. Joel Osteen
• The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It’s focused attention. Rick Warren
• Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness. Mary Anne Radmacher
• Love pays attention. Love listens to the fears and the doubts of others and treats them with respect. Rick Warren
• When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in. Brené Brown
• When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us. John Ortberg
• Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely. Jack Kornfield
• Listening with undivided attention and unconditional love Is perhaps the greatest gift we can extend to others. Gerald Jampolsky
• To give someone your spacious, non-judgemental attention is the very meaning of love and the greatest gift you can give. Anthony Lambert
• The most precious gift we can offer anyone is…our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. Thich Nhat Hanh
• The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself. Bryant H. McGill
• Attention is the most basic form of love. By paying attention we let ourselves be touched by life , and our hearts naturally become more open and engaged. Tara Brach
• The gifts of caring, attention, affection, appreciation, and love are some of the most precious gifts you can give, and they don’t cost you anything. Deepak Chopra
• The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person’s growth. M. Scott Peck
• Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world. Al Franken
• Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention. James Hillman
• If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die. Nhat Hanh
• What is at the center of your life? Carefully examine where you spend your attention, your time. Look at your appointment book, your daily schedule…. This is what receives your care and attention–and by definition, your love. Wayne Muller
• When we focus for longer periods on what’s productive and meaningful – important conversations, big work projects and experiences with loved ones – our lives improve by virtually every measure. We get more done, dive deeper into our experiences and notice more meaning around us, because we process the world with greater intention. We stop allowing our devices to interrupt us every 40 seconds. And we feel more in control of our lives, because we take control of each moment. Chris Bailey
• Once there is a certain degree of Presence, of still and alert attention in human beings’ perceptions, they can sense the divine life essence, the one indwelling consciousness or spirit in every creature, every life-form, recognize it as one with their own essence and so love it as themselves. Until this happens, however, most humans see only the outer forms, unaware of the inner essence, just as they are unaware of their own essence and identify only with their own physical and psychological form. Eckhart Tolle

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Love listens

• All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being. But we can give it to them only through the love that listens.  Paul Tillich
• By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening… True listening is love in action. Scott Peck
• How can we communicate love? I think three things are involved. We must reach out to a person, make contact. We must listen with the heart, be sensitive to the other’s needs. We must respond in a language that the person can understand. Many of us do all the talking. We must learn to listen and to keep on listening. Princess Pale Moon
• Listening is a primitive act of love in which a person gives him – or herself to another’s word, making oneself accessible and vulnerable to that word. William Stringfellow
• Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I’m concerned, is certainly a prerequisite of love. One of the most essential ways of saying ‘I love you’ is being a receptive listener. Fred Rogers
• Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions. Robert Brault
• Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. David Byrne
• The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich