Charlotte Mary Yonge 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.

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

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

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

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

To love is to will the good of the other.

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

There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.

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.

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

The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

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

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

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

The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.