Quote of the Day: Loretta Young on Love

If you’ve been waiting for a sign to stop forcing the timeline and start trusting your life again, let this insight be the permission you need: “Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.”

Most of us treat love like a scavenger hunt, more profiles, more effort, more strategy. But Loretta Young flips the script: love isn’t a trophy for the best searcher; it’s a visitor that arrives when there’s room. That doesn’t mean you sit back and do nothing. It means you stop gripping the steering wheel so tightly that you miss the turn.

To live this well, shift from chasing to preparing. Be the kind of person love can recognize: grounded, curious, and honest. Put your energy into small acts of self-discovery, sleep, movement, meaningful work, the friendships that keep you human. Love tends to find people who are already practicing how to receive: listening without rehearsing, showing up without performing, telling the truth without demands. Openness is a skill, not a personality trait.

And when loneliness nags, take this as reassurance: you’re not “behind.” Being found often happens in ordinary moments, when your guard is down, when you’re engaged with life, when you’re not auditioning. Your job is to keep the door unlocked, not to drag someone through it.

That wisdom carries weight coming from Loretta Young, an Academy Award–winning actress who sustained a decades-long career across film and television, learning firsthand how timing, patience, and presence shape what endures.

Today, do one concrete thing: reach out to one person you care about and ask a real question you can’t fake your way through, then listen. Practice love as receptivity, and let the rest arrive in its own time; may you be surprised in the best way.