Venus Williams Quotes

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Love isn't love until you give it away.

I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

My mother taught me how to love. My mom is the most loving person I know.

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.

A therapist might suggest my generosity is a way of buying affection. But buying people's love has never been an issue for me. Generally speaking, I don't want their love.

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

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Without love, we are not free from our own self interest.

Generosity is stronger and wiser than cruelty and indifference… The real secret of life is good will.

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.

There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.

I never sacrificed myself. I did what I did out of love.

My family made big sacrifices but little gestures mean a lot. My sister took me to training when she was pregnant.

My mum's amazing. She's the person I admire most, I think, in her sacrifice to me and my sister and her level of emotional sacrifice to people around her. She takes a high level of personal responsibility for the welfare of people around her.

My parents have sacrificed so much, more than any parents really should.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.