Meher Baba Quotes

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

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

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.

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

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.

where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?

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

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.

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

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.

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

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

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.

Dear is your heart and close your hand, I relinquish all to love's dysmorphic command.

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

And all for love, and nothing for reward.

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 of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

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.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.