Edmund Spenser Quotes

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

'Haaye ve' is special to me because it is about unconditional love. The song is that when you love someone you can take the most drastic step for that person.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Dear is your heart and close your hand, I relinquish all to love's dysmorphic command.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Keeping you [alive] is no profit; losing you is no loss.

Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Love is sacrifice.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.