W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.

We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.

The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving.

Love is not about getting - but giving.

Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.

Love is more important than what we can take...Please say with me three times-Love! Love! Love!

The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.

In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

Loving people is the highest level of spiritual warfare that we could ever do

Masters are those who have chosen only love. In every instance. In every moment. In every circumstance. Even as they were being killed, they loved their murderers. Even as they were being persecuted, they loved their oppressors.

I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.

Love isn't love until you give it away.

Some people say that compassion is the purest form of love because it neither expects nor demands anything in return.

I want her to be happy. It's worth sacrificing myself.

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

How could you love someone and not want them to be happy?

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.

The object of love is to serve, not to win

Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

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

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.