Melissa de la Cruz Quotes

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.

If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.

Sacrifice is a demonstration of pure love.

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

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

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.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

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

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

I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3

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.

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

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.

Those who are willing to sacrifice and be of service have very little difficulty with people. They know what they are all about. People can't help but want to be near them. They help them; they work with them. That's what love is all about. It starts with your heart and radiates out.

What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.

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.

When love is involved no sacrifice is too great.

All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.

I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.

To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.