Paulo Coelho Quotes

It's such a magnificent thing to be able to love someone and expect nothing from them.

The true power of love is found in selfless attitudes and actions that seek the best for another person without expecting anything in return. When we act in that way, the feeling of love follows close behind.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

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

Love is no love which asks for a return.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

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

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3

Love only serves and does not calculate.

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

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

Did you know that true love asks for nothing?

Only Love conceives things worthy enough to stand greater than individual accomplishment.

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.