Phillips Brooks Quotes

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

If you love people enough, they will give you everything.

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.

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

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

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

When we stop thinking about ourselves, when we stop being so devoted to 'me,' we can start behaving in a way that actually benefits others!

Day, the champion of the people, the one who can't bear to see those around him suffer on his behalf, who would gladly give his life for those he loves.

Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.

Love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

The decision to give ourselves to others is a daily taking up of the cross.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.

I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.

Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.