Unselfish Love Quotes

• True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.

  Thomas Merton

  Happiness And Love, True Happiness, Increase

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.1, Shambhala Publications

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• There are three kinds of love;
  unselfish, mutual, and selfish.
  The unselfish love is of the highest kind;
  The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings.
  In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved;
  but has an eye towards his own happiness also. It is middling.
  The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness,
  no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe.

  Ramakrishna

  Selfish, Eye, Love Is

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• There can be no greatness in things. Things cannot be great. The only greatness is unselfish love.

  William Henry Drummond

  Greatness, Unselfish

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• Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Doe, Return, Objects

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• Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you.

  Jessica Chastain

  Done, Unselfish, Do Unto Others

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Happiness, Spiritual, Inner Peace

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.74, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Benjamin Disraeli (1974). “Sybil”, p.308, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

  Shakira

  Children, Parent, Want

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• Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions.

  Stephen G. Post

  People, Important, Spirituality

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• Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

  David Niven

  War, Humanity, Done

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• Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

  Mortimer Adler

  Selfless, Benevolent, Unselfishness

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• Love is natural. Back of allceremony burns and will forever burn the sacred flame. There has been no time in the world's history when that torch was extinguished. In all ages, in all climes, among all people, there has been true, pure, and unselfish love.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Love Is, Flames

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1985, Library of Alexandria

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• Take with you the joy of Easter to the home, and make that home bright with more unselfish love, more hearty service.

  John Ellerton

  Easter, Home, Joy

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• Who so loves believes the impossible.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Faith, Believe

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh. Author's ed”, p.195

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• But love is something that has to be as selfish as it is unselfish. You can't make yourself love someone because you feel like you should. Just wanting to love someone isn't enough.

  Aprilynne Pike

  Selfish, Love Is, Self Love

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• Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Confidence, Honesty, Patriotic

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

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• In all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any relation of life can be at its best if the element of friendship be lacking. And no love can transcend, in its possibilities of noble and ennobling exaltation, a love that is pure friendship.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Real, Exaltation, Friendship Love

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• There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Heart, Sacrifice

  1843 'The Black Cat', in the United States Saturday Post,19 Aug.

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• It is in the faculty of noble, disinterested, unselfish love that lies the true gift and power of womanhood,--a power which makes us, not the equal of men (I never care to claim such equality), but their equivalents; more than their equivalents in a moral sense.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Lying, Power, Men

  Frances Power Cobbe (1882). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”

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• True Christianity is love in action. There is no better way to manifest love for God than to show an unselfish love for your fellow men. This is the spirit of missionary work

  David O. McKay

  Men, Missionary, Fellow Man

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• That which we look on with unselfish love
  And true humility is surely ours,
  Even as a lake looks at the stars above
  And makes within itself a heaven of stars.

  Mary Gardiner Brainard

  Stars, Humility, Lakes

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• I care little in the existence of a heaven or hell; self respect does not allow me to guide my acts with an eye toward heavenly salvation or hellish punishment. I pursue the good in life because it is beautiful and attracts me; and shun the bad because it is ugly and repulsive. All our acts should originate from the spring of unselfish love, whether there be a continuation after death or not.

  Heinrich Heine

  Beautiful, Spring, Eye

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• Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.

  Erma Bombeck

  4th Of July, Caring, Compassion

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• Take with you the joy of Easter to the home, and make that home bright with more unselfish love, more hearty service; take it into your work, and do all in the name of the Lord Jesus; take it to your heart, and let that heart rise anew on Easter wings to a higher, a gladder, a fuller life; take it to the dear grave-side and say there the two words Jesus lives! and find in them the secret of calm expectation, the hope of eternal reunion.

  John Ellerton

  Friday, Easter, Jesus

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