On love

"Everybody wants to be loved
That is a wrong beginning.
And it starts because the child, the small child,
cannot love, cannot say anything, cannot do
anything, cannot give anything - he can only get.

A small child's experience of love is of getting
But the trouble arises because
everybody has been a child, and
everybody has the same urge to get love,
and nobody is born in any other way.

So all are asking, 'Give us love',
and there is nobody to give
because the other person is also
brought up in the same way."

OSHO