Isabel Yosito Quotes

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

And all for love, and nothing for reward.

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

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

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

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.

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

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

The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot.

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

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

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.

I don't believe love is fickle. I believe when you love someone, you are allowed to love from afar. You don't have to be with that person in order to love him.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

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.

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

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

Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more…to give way to the happiness of the person you love.

I would want everyone to love someone in the purest sense of the word - an unconditional love in which you don't expect anything in return.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

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.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.