Julianna Baggott Quotes

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

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

It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.

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

True love is an act of total surrender.

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

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

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.

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

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

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends.

So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and to be owned and to be possessed. It is not a circle circumscribed by self, it is arms outstretched to embrace all humanity within its grasp.

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

What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.

That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.

To give one's heart is to give all.

"Mine ain't a selfish affection, you know," said Mr. Toots, in the confidence engendered by his having been a witness of the Captain's tenderness. "It's the sort of thing with me, Captain Gills, that if I could be run over - or - or trampled upon - or - or thrown off a very high place -or anything of that sort - for Miss Dombey's sake, it would be the most delightful thing that could happen to me."

When love is involved no sacrifice is too great.

A human’s love. I couldn’t wish anything better for him. Animals protect what they know. They protect what they are bound to, but humans…humans have a greater capacity for sacrifice for those who live in their hearts. (Aristotle)

Sacrifice of live, sacrifice for love. Fate is gentle and harsh; she gives and she takes.

The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

True love is the parent of humility.

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.