Eleanor Catton Quotes

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.

I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.

I have become a person who can focus more on love.

Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now. There’s a confusion in each of us, a sickness, really: selfishness. But there’s also a cure. So be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf - seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life.

Whom you would change, you must first love.

I haven't always been the person I am today. I came into loving myself more than anything or anyone else.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it's a real thing - the more love we spread around the world the more it's going to change lives.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.

I do not think I am successful just because I have money. I'm successful because I love who I am and I have no regrets, and I'm successful because I have a great heart and I have compassion and I care and I would be happy with or without money.

But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people.

I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

It's wrong for a guy to have no personality, no heart. Because I don't care about style or money.

I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.

We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

So many people have touched my heart and made an impact on my world. I'm thankful for every lesson and learning experience.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.