Evelyn Underhill Quotes

Love is proved by deeds; the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

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

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

Did you know that true love asks for nothing?

Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.

True love is an act of total surrender.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

When you love someone, you should see beyond their image.

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.

Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

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.

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

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 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.

I don't believe love is fickle. I believe when you love someone, you are allowed to love from afar. You don't have to be with that person in order to love him.

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

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

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.

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