Selflessness Quotes - Page 5

• Selflessness implies fun. Its fun to be free. Freedom is inner stillness and not being haunted by your desires, your fears, your aggressive tendencies ... it's being cool.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Fun, Yoga

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• 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.

  Criss Jami

  Fighting, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.57, Criss Jami

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• Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity, it is not easy to unravel the mutually reinforcing motives of selflessness and self-interest. All that can safely be said is that most members of the royal family have difficulty distinguishing between concern about society, concern about the social order and concern about what best to do so they can remain at the top of it.

  David Cannadine

  Self, Order, Cynical

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• I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Thinking, Would Be, Way

  "In love and war" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2001.

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• If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Self Love, Soul, Lust

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• I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Friendship, Dog, Home

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• In india, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.

  Amit Bhatia

  Giving Up, Hero, Role Models

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• Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. It enslaves him almost before he has tasted freedom. The 'ologies' will tell you how its done Theology calls it building a conscience or developing a spirit of selflessness. Psychology calls it the growth of the superego. Considering how long society has been at it, you'd expect a better job. But the campaigns have been badly planned and the victory has never been secured.

  B. F. Skinner

  Jobs, Long, Psychology

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• If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Flower, Heart, Mean

  Melissa de la Cruz (2011). “Lost In Time: Number 6 in series”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• We moved around a lot at first as a kid, and then I was on the road at 17, and new in town by the time I got to LA, and then famous again with that whirlwind. I did really want substance in my life, and when I stopped with the road for my children, it was really because I didn't want to miss out. It wasn't just selflessness. I didn't want to miss out on that.

  Lynda Carter

  Children, Kids, Missing

  "Lynda Carter Has a Secret Identity (And It Isn’t Diana Prince!)". Interview with Brent Hartinger, www.newnownext.com. June 3, 2009.

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• When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

  Leon Blum

  Children, Twenties, Thirty

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• I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

  Michael Schenker

  Years, Two, Four

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• He was no martyr. He was no hero But in the last two years, selfishness gave way to selflessness, lies gave way to truth and indulgence gave way to spirituality, and anyone watching that couldn't help but be moved by it.

  Lex Lasry

  Lying, Hero, Years

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• I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Years, Twenties, Twenty Somethings

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• Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

  Bert Campaneris

  Years, Play, League

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• I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

  Cole Younger

  Twenties, Eleven, Wounded

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• If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.

  Joe Flanigan

  Ideas, Feet, Guy

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• There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupid, Humility, Charity

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• You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heaven, Charity, Earth

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• International war is the sum total of millions of individual wars, raging in the minds of the people, between what is selfish and what is selfless. To the extent that you and I develop selflessness in our own hearts, to that extent we contribute to peace in our family, community, country, and world.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Country, Selfish, War

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• In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Writing, Modern Novel, Trying

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• The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood is the selflessness that it introduces you to, and I think that's really freeing... I think it allows you to put yourself in other people's shoes...the empathy that it slugs you with, being a mother. And I think it makes you a better storyteller.

  Olivia Wilde

  Mother, Thinking, Shoes

  "Olivia Wilde Talks Motherhood and Son Otis: 'He's Amazing in Every Way'" by Brett Malec, www.eonline.com. October 29, 2014.

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• Physical love, so unjustly decried, forces everyone to manifest even the smallest bits of kindness he possesses, of selflessness,that they shine in the eyes of all who surround him.

  Marcel Proust

  Sex, Kindness, Eye

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• Some might say that looking inside of ourselves for spiritual truths is egocentric and selfish, and that egolessness and selflessness lie in working for others in the world. But until we find our inner truth, our work in the world will always revolve around our 'selves'. As long as we think about the world in terms of 'self' and 'others', our actions will be selfish. Our 'self' follows us wherever we go, so positive results will be limited.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Spiritual, Lying, Selfish

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• The spirit of sacrifice and selflessness of the defence forces is an inspiration for all Indians. Strong armed forces are necessary for an atmosphere of peace, amity, harmony and brotherhood in the country.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Strong, Inspiration

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