Jim Butcher Quotes

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.

A therapist might suggest my generosity is a way of buying affection. But buying people's love has never been an issue for me. Generally speaking, I don't want their love.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.

It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.

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)

Swords don't glorify the creator-God. Love does. Self-giving love, best of all.

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

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

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

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.

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

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

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

What's special about Superman is that he will always make the right choice.

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.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Most people would rather give than get affection.