John Galsworthy Quotes

Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody.

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

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.

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.

So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and to be owned and to be possessed. It is not a circle circumscribed by self, it is arms outstretched to embrace all humanity within its grasp.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Love asks for nothing. Only personalities want something.

The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Some people say that compassion is the purest form of love because it neither expects nor demands anything in return.

In business people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.

Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

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.

Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.

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

Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more…to give way to the happiness of the person you love.

I would want everyone to love someone in the purest sense of the word - an unconditional love in which you don't expect anything in return.

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.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

The only way to experience love is to give it.