F. Sionil Jose Quotes

That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.

This is the meaning of true love, to give until it hurts.

Love without sacrifice is like theft

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Motherhood is the ultimate call to sacrifice.

My mom has always put everyone before herself and sacrificed things unimaginable.

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

Did you know that true love asks for nothing?

Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

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)

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.

I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life.

Love is no love which asks for a return.

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

Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

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

Love is sacrifice.

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without 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.