Bob Goff Quotes

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

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.

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

When we love like Jesus does, lives change for the better.

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.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

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.

There is no love without sacrifices.

Love is giving and it has nothing to do with what you receive.

Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.

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

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.

Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.

Extravagant love is never wasted.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

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

In business people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.

Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never.