Patti Smith Quotes

What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.

Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among many.

I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and that is how I think we have to work.

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

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

The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood is the selflessness that it introduces you to, and I think that's really freeing... I think it allows you to put yourself in other people's shoes...the empathy that it slugs you with, being a mother. And I think it makes you a better storyteller.

I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.

I've always put everybody else's child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

you have to understand. i wasn't just thinking of me. i was thinking of her, too.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

Being a Christian means having love. That is unbelievably difficult and, at the same time, incredibly simple.

The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.

It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

Love is doing something you don't want to do for someone you don't particularly like at that moment.

Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.

Love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker.

The decision to give ourselves to others is a daily taking up of the cross.