Selflessness Quotes
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"My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for."
"God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself."
"Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do."
"After the fire, when I'd tried to express my gratitude for their kindness to our customers, they'd been awkward, uncomfortable. My father had had to explain to me that giving thanks is not a common practice in India.'Then how do you know if people appreciated what you did?' I'd asked.'Do you really need to know?' my father had asked back."
"I do two things," she told me. "I remind myself that it's not all about me. And I focus on the good. There's always a way to find some good."
"Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness."
"Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit."
"The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness"
"If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy."
"A good man will never harm or oppress another. A good man will share his last morsel of food with others in need, and die of hunger when he no longer has any food -- instead of cheat or steal from others to survive. Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible."
"The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary."
"It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished."
"Purpose, meaning, and hope are the edge of a coin; on one side is imprinted the image of God; and on the other is self … As complicated as life seems at times, the mystery of fulfillment and the paradox of contentment are as simple as that. What makes life complicated, I suspect, isn’t the choice between these two value systems and the paths they define, sin and holiness, so much as it is our unwillingness to make the choice between the two."
"All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves."
"It is a very difficult secret to understand that when we do not want to possess another selfishly, he or she will always love us. It is when we do not want to possess, when we do not make demand after demand, that the relationship will last."
"You can discover your calling through the eyes of others"
"You need focus and concentration to be effective in life"
"The amount of value produced at a certain period depends on the level of focus used to attain it"
"To regain your lost years, you must make sure that any activity targeted at attaining your goal must be done with the qualities of intensity, speed and focus"
"Always take an inventory of your life"
"Time wasters are life wasters"
"Time spent adding value is not wasted"
"Purposefully dedicating time into developing yourself is one of the keys to being effective in life"
"Use your resources wisely and spend quality time on developing your resources"
"Always have a list of what you want to achieve in life"
"Be strategic and purposeful in whatever you do"
"Combine your calling with your passion to achieve great results"
"Your calling is concealed in you and has to be discovered by you alone"
"Always be organized in adding value"
"Your calling is buried in your background and life experience"
"You need speed to regain your lost years"
"Your calling should bless and affect the lives of others for good"
"You need to do an inventory of yourself to discover your calling and purpose"
"Your calling is in what you often think about"
"Your destiny is connected with your calling"
"You need intensity to be quick"
"If your idea is not against your conscience or the will of God, go for it"
"It is impossible to pause, stop or delay time"
"You have to be skillful in your time management to be productive"
"You have to be skillful in your time management to be effective in life"
"Every fragment of time that passes daily must be converted for it to be fully effective"
"Be organized in maximizing time"
"You have to be pragmatic, purposeful and goal-oriented to be fully effective"
"Make sure everything you do is targeted at yielding maximum results"
"Always live in active consciousness"
"Living in active consciousness is being in the “here and now"
"If you are not living in active consciousness, you will always be lost"
"To be productive, you have to stop being absent-minded"
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