Self Giving Quotes - Page 2

We pass through this world but once.

Stephen Jay Gould

Kindness, Helping Others, Giving

Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.30, W. W. Norton & Company

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Success means to wake up, grow up, and show up, living your unique self, giving your unique gifts to the larger evolutionary symphony of life which needs your music.

Marc Gafni

Growing Up, Mean, Unique

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The joy of a self-giving life
Can neither be measured
Nor be expounded.

Sri Chinmoy

Self, Giving, Joy

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Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.

Frederick Lenz

Karma, Yoga, Mean

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Human behavior is so intriguing. I find myself giving thumbs up signs all the time. I know I look like an absolute dork, but I do it anyway.

Anne Heche

Thumbs Up, Giving, Humanity

Anne Heche (2001). “Call Me Crazy”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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It is is easy to smile. It is an act of self-giving. When you smile you are at your best and you give that best to others.

Frederick Lenz

Happiness, Buddhism, Self

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Swords don't glorify the creator-God. Love does. Self-giving love, best of all.

N. T. Wright

Love Is, Giving Love, Creator God

N T Wright (2004). “John for Everyone, Part 2: Chapters 11-21”, p.34, Westminster John Knox Press

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Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure - giving it all away, in the pyramid scheme of life, with the knowledge that everything will be returned, and being satisfied with that knowledge; not with the actual return of things, but the idea of the return of things. There is death.

Tao Lin

Pyramid Schemes, Self, Ideas

Tao Lin (2007). “Eeeee Eee Eeee: A Novel”, Melville House Pub

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In real self-giving we are inspired. Whether they acknowledge us or not is not important.

Frederick Lenz

Karma, Real, Yoga

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Selfless giving is measured by how good you feel. Self giving should be obvious.

Frederick Lenz

Karma, Yoga, Self

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We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.

Frederick Lenz

Karma, Yoga, Indulge In

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There are persons who elected to give their existence to God. They are happy, happy in their self-giving.

Frederick Lenz

Karma, Yoga, Self

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The priestly vocation is essentially a call to sanctity, in the form that derives from the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Sanctity is intimacy with God; it is the imitation of Christ, poor, chaste and humble; it is unreserved love for souls and self-giving to their true good; it is love for the church which is holy and wants us to be holy, because such is the mission that Christ has entrusted to it. Each one of you must be holy also in order to help your brothers pursue their vocation to sanctity.

Pope John Paul I

Brother, Humble, Self

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This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

Peter Kreeft

Sacrifice, Self, Giving

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It is also possible to say precisely why. Truth seduces us very easily into a kind of joy of possession: I have comprehended this and that, learned it, understood it. Knowledge is power. I am therefore more than the other man who does not know this and that. I have greater possibilities and also greater temptations. Anyone who deals with truth - as we theologians certainly do - succumbs all too easily to the psychology of the possessor. But love is the opposite of the will to possess. It is self-giving. It boasteth not itself, but humbleth itself.

Helmut Thielicke

Love Is, Men, Opposites

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The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

Cory Doctorow

Real, Damage Is Done, Giving

"BBC Photographer Prevented From Shooting St Paul's Because He Might Be 'Al Qaeda Operative'". boingboing.net. November 30, 2009.

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In self-giving you must be so careful of egotism. You must be so careful when you are aiding others in their liberation not to have a sense of self.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Compassion, Self

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We are inspired by the God that we see in others and suddenly we find ourselves changing. We find ourselves giving more. We find that our lives become rather amazingly beautiful.

Frederick Lenz

Beautiful, Karma, Yoga

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One thing I have seen, regardless of the method of aprehenesion of the dimensional plane one is in, is self-giving and how effective it is.

Frederick Lenz

Karma, Yoga, Self

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Not one But twenty-four self-giving-hours Every day I have For my use.

Sri Chinmoy

Time, Self, Giving

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Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give.

Frederick Lenz

Humility, Buddhism, Giving

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My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Mother, Giving, Way

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Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving... toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God.

Pope Benedict XVI

Faith, Inspiration, Journey

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Dear young people, we have seen that it is the Holy Spirit who brings about the wonderful communion of believers in Jesus Christ. True to his nature as giver and gift alike, he is even now working through you. Let unifying love be your measure; abiding love your challenge; self-giving love your mission!

Pope Benedict XVI

Life, Jesus, Love You

"Vigil With the Young People". Address in Sydney, Australia, w2.vatican.va. July 19, 2008.

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A pretty woman is a Christmas tree,' my mother told me in the airport. This fella is hanging things on my branches as his gaze sweeps from my face all the way down my body to my hips and then back to my face. Ideas fly from his widened eyes and land on me like teeny, decorative burdens. He is giving me shyness, maybe, some book smarts, and a certain yielding sweetness in bed. The oil-slick eyes get me, and I find myself hanging a few ornaments myself, giving him deft hands and a sense of humor.

Joshilyn Jackson

Mother, Smart, Book

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