Emily Bronte Quotes

We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.

Hanajima: To truly love someone is to always put thier feelings before your own...No matter what.

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

The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.

That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.

I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

I want her to be happy. It's worth sacrificing myself.

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

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.

The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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

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

You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

I love you when I forget about me.

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends.

She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself.

There is no love without sacrifices.

Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.

She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.