A. A. Milne Quotes

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

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.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

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

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.

The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

To love is to act.

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 never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

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.

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.

My mother taught me how to love. My mom is the most loving person I know.

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

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.

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 no love which does not become help.

Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it.

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

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.