Henry Van Dyke Quotes

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

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Extravagant love is never wasted.

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

Love is sacrifice.

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.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

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.

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.

Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more…to give way to the happiness of the person you love.

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