George MacDonald Quotes

Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return. All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return? He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?

You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to receive it. So love can only be kept by being given away, and it can only be given perfectly when it is also received.

You can't love someone unless they love you back.

That's the definition of love, that going out in spirit to a separate and other soul and being received similarly.

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

What he'd never understood about men in his position, in all the books he'd read and movies he'd seen about them, was clearer to him now: you couldn't keep expecting wholehearted love without, at some point, requiting it. There was no credit to be earned for simply being good.

You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.

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

Love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.

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

Love others and as you do, that love will return to you.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

If you wished to be loved, love.

Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

It's easy to love people who love you.

The true power of love is found in selfless attitudes and actions that seek the best for another person without expecting anything in return. When we act in that way, the feeling of love follows close behind.

That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get from each other and that's determined by how much you're Giving to each other... But it all starts Within our self and then it spreads to those around us, Good & Bad. But basically that's it, I think it's the Love that we can generate is = to the Love that we get back Amen

The only way to experience love is to give it.