Love vs Selfishness

This is WEEK 29 of the Character Development Series I am doing for 2012.  So glad you stopped by!

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. -Joseph Joubert

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. -George Eliot

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love’s sake only. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ -Erich Fromm