Imelda Marcos Quotes

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

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.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

I am a man who has made a great deal of money, and I haven't got a great deal. This is because I give it no value, and a certain Christian precept is something to be lived by, and so forth.

There is just one reason that we are placed on this Earth. That reason is to love and be loved - in that order.

It's easy to love people who love you.

I realized everything my mom had done for me: Anything we didn't have, she made sure we had.

It's such a magnificent thing to be able to love someone and expect nothing from them.

Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

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

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

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

You want to love unconditionally everything you do, or don't do it.

My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.

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.

Money can't heal your heart. Money can't give you purpose. I don't want arms and legs, I want purpose. I don't want arms and legs, I want peace. I don't want arms and legs, I want to be a miracle for someone else.

Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.

I try to live my life like my father lives his. He always takes care of everyone else first. He won't even start eating until he's sure everyone else in the family has started eating. Another thing: My dad never judges me by whether I win or lose.

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.