Charlotte Bronte Quotes

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

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

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.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

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.

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do.

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

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

I will give my life to whoever in need, to any dear friend of mine.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me.

Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.