Jeaniene Frost Quotes

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker.

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.

I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.

Being in love is all about the ability to give rather than take. It is not easy, but if you can accept this, then you will experience love.

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

If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?

I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.

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.

I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love.

How do you spell love?... when you reach the point where the happiness, security and development of another person is as much of a driving force to you as your own happiness, security, and development, then you have a mature love. 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.

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.

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.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

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

I love my family, I'll do anything for them.

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.

There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love.

Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you've offered today.