Henry Van Dyke Quotes

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

I have always believed that love is what helps you develop into the best person you are. It's a selfless emotion, but people usually follow the corrupted version.

Being in love is all about the ability to give rather than take. It is not easy, but if you can accept this, then you will experience love.

To love is to will the good of the other.

True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self.

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

A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Well, for me, what I've learned at the very end of this, love is sharing, and I think that really is, for me, the best place to go to experience love, is sharing.

What we typically call love is only the start of love. Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments.

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

The beauty of love is that in giving it away, you are left with more than you had before.

Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.

Love is more important than what we can take...Please say with me three times-Love! Love! Love!

Love is giving and it has nothing to do with what you receive.

Love is the opposite of [lust]: respecting the other as an end unto himself or herself. When you love someone as an end unto himself, then there is no feeling of hurt; you become enriched through it. Love makes everybody rich.

Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.

Love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.