David Frost Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

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

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

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

Love is sacrifice.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

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.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.

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.

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

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.

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

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 wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away.

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.

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

Love is not selfish. Love is something else.

I have always believed that love is what helps you develop into the best person you are. It's a selfless emotion, but people usually follow the corrupted version.