Bob Goff Quotes

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

Love is not about getting - but giving.

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

Love is sacrifice.

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

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 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 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.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.

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

The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

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.

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

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.

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 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.

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.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

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.