Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

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

My mom has always put everyone before herself and sacrificed things unimaginable.

There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or try to love) stupid and disagreeable people because they need us. This second kind is the more divine because that is how God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.

If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.

[What's beautiful about my mother is] her compassion, how much she gives, whether it be to her kids and grandkids or out in the world. She's got a sparkle.

I heard once that real love doesn't ask what is in it for me; it just gives unconditionally. It just tries to take the weight out of somebody else's pack, lessen his load, and if it gets reciprocated, that's great, but that isn't what you did it for.

We can give without loving, but we can't love without giving. In fact, love is nothing unless we give it to someone.

Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.

Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?

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

May we give as the Savior gave. To give of oneself is a holy gift. We give as a remembrance of all the Savior has given.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.

You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation.

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

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.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.