Essie Davis Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

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.

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

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

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

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.

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

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Unconditional love goes a long way.

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

Love is sacrifice.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

Your greatest achievement is to love me.

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

You've got to give away what you love.

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.

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.

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.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

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.