Bob Goff Quotes

I always sacrifice myself for the love of all my people.

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

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

One who has no love in his heart will try to possess everything for himself. One who has love in his heart is ready to sacrifice everything, including his own body, for the benefit of others.

Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

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

To love is to will the good of the other.

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.

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.

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.

It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

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