Julia Roberts Quotes

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.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

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 is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

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.

If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

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.

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

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

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away.

Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more…to give way to the happiness of the person you love.

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

Did you know that true love asks for nothing?

I want her to be happy. It's worth sacrificing myself.

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

Love is sacrifice.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

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

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

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

And all for love, and nothing for reward.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

One who has no love in his heart will try to possess everything for himself. One who has love in his heart is ready to sacrifice everything, including his own body, for the benefit of others.