Ann Voskamp Quotes

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 is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

It may be very difficult to keep the virtues of purity, passion, and sacrifice of love in real life.

Love is sacrifice.

The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.

I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.

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.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

You may judge for yourselves, without partiality, whether I have not sacrificed my life, my being, every minute of my time in order to make a nation of you.

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

Luckily, no one I've ever been in love with has needed me to save their life!

I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.

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

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

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.

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

I fell in love for the right reason. I fell in love unconditionally.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.