Charles Dickens Quotes

It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best 'proofs' I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.

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

Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

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

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

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

Dear is your heart and close your hand, I relinquish all to love's dysmorphic command.

And all for love, and nothing for reward.

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

I’d never known it was possible to love as he did— with complete devotion yet devoid of promises.

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

Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return. All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return? He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?

... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

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)

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

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.

The deepest joys and blessings in life are associated with family, parenthood, and sacrifice.

True love is an act of total surrender.

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