"A heart is not judged by how much YOU love, but by how much YOU are loved by others"?

Hi..

But still it's the 'Wizard of Oz' saying..

Not the sacred Buddha's,

Ghandi's..

Allah's,

And Jesus Christ's..

It is a very wordly thought. That somewhat opposes the real meaning of love..

Love in its spiritual value of 'giving and being selfless'..

Now one can be popular like the spiritual symbols above through ages and time, from their devotions and great virtues. But only after being cruelly casted away and also horribly treated by some others during their times..

I guess..

Good day!

Tin Man Heart Quote

Disagree big time. It does not mean popularity. If he had said "by how many love you" perhaps it would have. How much you are loved by others isn't measured by how many others, it's how much love, whether it's one person or a hundred. Anyone can love anything, it takes a special heart to earn the most love. Simple as that.

I think it's my favorite movie line of all time (and I believe it was from the script, not lifted directly from L. Frank Baum, though I could be wrong on that matter.)

This is how I understand it:

You might love everyone, but if no one love you back. There has to be a reason why, right? In this case, you are probably cold-hearted and mean to others making you have a "small" heart. However if you love everyone and are loved in return, then you are a good, kind friend who deserves the love making you have a "large" heart.

I hope that helps.

This saying can be translated a couple different ways, but I feel that what it's saying is this: When you genuinely love others and are kind and compassionate to them, that love is most always returned. So if you love all people, then that love will be greatly returned to you. This shows how much you truly loved by how much others love you. Hope that makes sense.

I agree with you. The wizard has it backwards. He's not Glenda the Good after all. He's a charlatan, a poseur, a fake, a fraud, and his worldview is that which has perennially been held by such people.

In Baum's day, not every character in children's books had to speak virtuously or truly. Children in those days could apply critical thinking skills, and clever authors like Baum and Lewis Carroll often challenged them to do so. This was not considered corrupting children but rather strengthening them and preparing them better for life in the big people's world.

The wizard is no hero, or model. He is a pathetic figure, and an anti-climax at the end of the Yellow brick (gold bullion) road that Dorothy walks with her silver slippers.

You correct me now and tell me they were ruby slippers, and I retort the first edition says silver.

Anyhow gold and silver get you to a place where it's the love tribute you receive that counts not the love fountain bursting outward from your heart. Your main capacity is to receive, not to act. Love is action of the highest quality.

Youaintwrong!

First, this is a movie quote, in the book the Wizard takes tin snips and puts a "heart" into the Tin Man. The Wizard has to say something to him or it would look odd since he says something to the Scarecrow and the Lion. This sort of Pollyanna fluff was not intended to be examined but simply included to advance the movie. {my favorite line was “Oh, no, my dear, I’m a very good man. I’m just a very bad wizard.”}

It means that you shoild be loved so that you know someone cares for you, it doesn't have to mean she needs to be a B****, and it doesn't mean she can't love anyone else, because it's good too, that way they know they are loved to... See if a person feels that they are not loved, they get depressed and kill themselves, which ironicly is what the actress did who played dorathy... mmmm... And when a person doesn't feel loved it may be because they are either abused physicly or mentally, (Mine is mental, but my friends don't want me to die, so I know I'm loved by someone) ... I'm hopeing this answer's your question... Also I neither agree nor disagree, as there are maltaple meanings for that, and someone can take it another way ")

We can perceive ourselves to be loving when in reality we are pricks. We cannot correctly judge ourselves and how we relate to the world. The assessment of whether or not we are loving has to come from others as manifest in their behavior to us. St. Theresa of Calcutta was universally loved because her focus was not on self but on loving others. I believe this is the message the phrase was meant to convey.

What about, "It is more blessed to give, than to receive...and there is no greater love, than to lay down your life for a friend....and for my sake, you will be hated." The world sings and writes and talks and dreams about, and attempts to love...but we really have no idea what true love is...So, until we give our wicked heart to God, our quotes about love, are meaningless and vain.