Bryant H. McGill Quotes

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

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

It's such a magnificent thing to be able to love someone and expect nothing from them.

When we love and want nothing but good for that person, it's one of the greatest gifts we possess.

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.

Love is sacrifice.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

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.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

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

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.