Jen Kirkman 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.

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

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.

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

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

Love is sacrifice.

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

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.

Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.

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

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.

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.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

I am a very approachable and personable person, and I always put myself last. Whether it's family or friends, I always think about them first.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.

My father is the man that, he will give you what he doesn't have, still. If he has 10 bucks and you need 10 bucks because you're sick or you don't have nothing to eat, he will give you 10 bucks. He will be at zero, but he will help you. That's the kind of man that my father is.

I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.

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