George MacDonald Quotes

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

It's easy to love people who love you.

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

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

If you wished to be loved, love.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

When you love someone, you should see beyond their image.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying to understand what another person wants us to understand. I may not understand perfectly and I may not agree, but if I love you I should try to know what it is you wish I could know.

I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.

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

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

When you're close to somebody, you can never really know how they're experiencing the world.

What motivates me is connecting with people and making everybody feel loved.

There is just one reason that we are placed on this Earth. That reason is to love and be loved - in that order.

Deep within us-no matter who we are-there lives a feeling of wanting to be lovable, of wanting to be the kind of person that others like to be with. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.

Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.

What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. Justice requires that we carefully weigh rights and privileges and assure that each member of a community receives his due share. Love does not weigh rights and privileges too carefully because it prompts each to bear the burden of the other.

In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

Only Love conceives things worthy enough to stand greater than individual accomplishment.

Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!