Henry Van Dyke Quotes

And you will remember that love is not getting, but giving; not a wild dream of pleasure, and a madness of desire — oh no, love is not that — it is goodness, and honour, and peace, and pure living — yes, love is that; and it is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives longest.

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.

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

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

To love is to will the good of the other.

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

Swords don't glorify the creator-God. Love does. Self-giving love, best of all.

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.

Well, for me, what I've learned at the very end of this, love is sharing, and I think that really is, for me, the best place to go to experience love, is sharing.

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.

The only way to experience love is to give it.

You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.

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

It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.

Love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.

Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.

Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self.

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

When you love someone, you should see beyond their image.

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.