Jeanette Winterson Quotes

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

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

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

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

Love is sacrifice.

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 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.

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

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

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

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.

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

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

One who has no love in his heart will try to possess everything for himself. One who has love in his heart is ready to sacrifice everything, including his own body, for the benefit of others.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself.

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

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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

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 greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.