Nicolas Berggruen Quotes

When you love someone and care about them, you want what's best for them, and it's always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren't what's best for them, how hard you try.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

When love is involved no sacrifice is too great.

Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.

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

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

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.

Love is sacrifice.

I love you all too much, it's one of just of my problems.

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

My wife gets mad at me, because I'll worry more about my friends than I worry about myself.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

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

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

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

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's something so grabbing about people who will do anything for one another.

But often times, I feel like I'm so blessed, it's not fair. That what I'm doing is not contributing to the good of the world.

He would take the blow so you didn't have to.

My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.