Hermann Hesse Quotes

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

I am a mother first. I will always be a mother, and I would die for my kids if need be.

Motherhood is the ultimate call to sacrifice.

And all for love, and nothing for reward.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves.

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

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

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

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less; but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart, and with the whole soul; with all his strength and with all his will.

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.

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

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.

Dear is your heart and close your hand, I relinquish all to love's dysmorphic command.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.