Mike Colter Quotes

Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself.

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

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

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.

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

The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.

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

I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.

We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.

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

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

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

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.

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

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

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.

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.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.

If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

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

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.