Mortimer Adler Quotes

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

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.

My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it.

Love is giving and it has nothing to do with what you receive.

True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

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

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

It's such a magnificent thing to be able to love someone and expect nothing from them.

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 about getting - but giving.