Gary Zukav Quotes

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

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.

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

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

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

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

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.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have.

It's such a magnificent thing to be able to love someone and expect nothing from them.

Love is not about getting - but giving.

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

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

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.

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.