Veronica Roth Quotes

I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself. No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodeness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know. My father: Erudite-born, Abnegation-grown. He often found it difficult to live up to the demands of his chosen faction, just as I did. But he tried, and he knew true selflessness when he saw it.

Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.

True love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good.

True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife.

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

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.

You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

Love is in the giver, not the gift.

It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good.

Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.

Love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

That is salvation. To give of love inside. To keep love of life, no matter what, and give to others. Generously.

I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.

I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Love asks for nothing. Only personalities want something.

I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.

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.

I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.

True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

It's easy to talk about how much you love God, but loving others reveals how much you truly do.

How do you spell love?... when you reach the point where the happiness, security and development of another person is as much of a driving force to you as your own happiness, security, and development, then you have a mature love. True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

Love, for me, is always wanting the best for the other person even if it's not what's best for you.

True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.