Mohsin Hamid Quotes

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

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody 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 greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

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.

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 consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

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

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

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.

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

One who has no love in his heart will try to possess everything for himself. One who has love in his heart is ready to sacrifice everything, including his own body, for the benefit of others.

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

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

Love is sacrifice.

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

Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.

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 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.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

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