Betty Wright Quotes

Love is pure and kind and forgiving. It is the greatest gift of all.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

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.

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

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

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.

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

My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it.

Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have.

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.

Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own [will], is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love is not easy. All great religions postulate love as one of the greatest accomplishments. If it were that easy, or as easy as most people think, certainly, the great religious leaders would have been rather naive.

Love is perfect kindness.

LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.

There are different definitions of love, and one of the most wonderful definitions of love is to allow somebody to be.

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

Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

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 always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.