This list was complied with several people sharing their ways to love people.
- Love your Higher Power.
- Love others as you love yourself.
- Never harm a child.
- Return carts to the corral or bring them into the stores (rather than complain)
- See an employee at a store struggling? Offer to help!
- Call someone and tell them that you love them.
- Let someone tell you that they love you.
- Compliment someone on a spiritual quality that they possess.
- Listen empathetically and honestly without trying to fix someone.
- Leave things better than I found them.
- Take the time to employ the Law of Creative Smiling when we are around people (smiling with your laughter, eyes, teeth, tongue, posture, physical proximity, etc).
- Hugs, not drugs.
- Handshakes.
- If someone is behind you at a store and you are both looking for a prime parking spot, drive past the good one and let the other driver have it (or just never take the best spot and let someone else can have it).
- Call someone and let them know you care.
- Do free service work at your place of employment.
- Sacrifice time and energy to help people.
- On the road? Let others go first.
- Stop for pedestrians.
- Drive sober.
- Pull over to help someone having trouble on the roadside.
- Caress a loved one’s face with a deep look of love.
- Offer well-placed & sincere compliments.
- Let them know they have a ‘social SNAFU’ thing going on (booger showing, fly open, center-button open on one’s blouse, food on chin, etc).
- Tell a lighthearted joke.
- Encourage someone that is feeling stressed or has a hurdle to surmount.
- Shovel someone’s driveway anonymously.
- Give pleasure without expectation of reciprocal activity.
- Give someone a backrub.
- Wash someone’s feet.
- Give your partner a bath.
- Share some music with someone (burn CD’s for people).
- Deposit some money in a friend’s account that needs money.
- Fast and give the money you would have spent on food to the poor.
- Volunteer to help a charity.
- Give yourself a Music Bath.
- Laugh with people.
- Write someone a poem.
- Create a greeting card for someone.
- Clean someone’s windshield of snow and ice.
- Pay for someone’s food in line at a grocery store.
- Go to a Thrift Shop and buy something for a needy person.
- Return a lost article to someone.
- Admit to someone when you are wrong.
- Inject lightheartedness into difficulty circumstances.
- When you were right and someone else was wrong, do not rub their nose in it, but rather say something appreciative with humility.
- Offer someone your place in line.
- Let someone know in their work capacity, that you, their customer, genuinely appreciate their hard work.
- Adjust a rug by a business door that has been rumpled and is keeping a door from closing right, or is just out of position.
- Pick up trash on the side of a road and discard it in the proper receptacle.
- Do not play your radio too loud in quiet neighborhoods or when people are nearby.
- Provide someone transportation.
- Provide directions to someone asking for it (maybe lead them to the right street or highway, etc.).
- Shampoo someone’s hair.
- Give up your seat on the bus, give up your taxi, or offer someone your choice spot in a well-attended function.
- Get to work early and do not leave early for free.
- Do not use foul language around people that find it uncomfortable to be around it.
- Open a door for someone.
- Pull out and push in a chair for a date (follow social etiquette).
- Do not flap the covers after you fart.
- Do not gossip.
- Be inclusive.
- Be positive, not negative.
- Remember people’s names (including their children’s names).
- Praise someone, treat someone extra-special.
- Ask someone what his or her name means (first or last, when appropriate).
- Ask permission to ask a question before asking it.
- Thank a store clerk by name after a transaction.
- Compliment someone’s appearance when appropriate.
- Learn something about someone’s field of interest so you can discuss it with them.
- Learn someone’s sibling’s names and learn things about them.
- Remember what people tell you about personal things; learn their song.
- Return phone calls.
- Remove trash from the street.
- Volunteer to give rides.
- Write someone a poem.
- Clean up trash in a restaurant for the Wait Staff.
- Scrape someone’s’ windshield of ice & snow anonymously
- Shovel someone’s driveway/sidewalk anonymously.
- Give a generous tip to Wait staff.
- Pick up garbage and dispose of it in the proper receptacles.
- To avoid embarrassing them, mention your name to someone you have not seen in a while, just in case they forgot your name (“I bet you missed your old friend, Timothy!”).
- While waiting in line, be patient and cheerful.
- Let someone else in line go first.
- Offer to help an elderly person carry groceries to the car.
- Offer your arm for support to an elderly person walking across the street, to their car, to church, etc.
- Make amends to those we have harmed.
- Place a quarter in someone’s expired parking meter.
- Be grateful for everything.
- Make amends, admit when you goofed.
- Throw a quarter in someone’s expired parking meter.
- Do service work for a community.
- Offer to babysit at no cost so someone can attend a workshop or event as a couple.
- Forgive yourself or others.
- Feed aquarium fish and watch them swim their dance.
- Bringing food to a pet with adoration.
- Let people love you exactly as they are.
- Teach (encourage) love.
- Drive sober.
- Listen to your heart.