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...there is power in self-sacrifice.
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selflessness
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Veronica Roth |
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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.
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happiness
giving
selflessness
selfishness
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Gretchen Rubin |
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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.
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sacrifice
reality
well-being
selflessness
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Melissa de la Cruz |
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The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea that it should be transitory. In one high bound it has overleaped the massive of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being. Spontaneously and without effort we have fulfilled the law (towards one person) by loving our neighbour as ourselves. It is an image, a foretaste, of what we must become to all if Love Himself rules in us without a rival. It is even (well used) a preparation for that.
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god
love
selflessness
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C.S. Lewis |
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You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.
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jinnah
courage
life
inspirational
making-a-difference
selflessness
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah |
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Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.
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selflessness
need
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Arthur Miller |
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Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her very self, a perfect example of charity and love which hardly perceives a separation. Motherhood then becomes a kind of priesthood. She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator.
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motherhood
selflessness
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Fulton J. Sheen |
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She did understand, or at least she understood that she was supposed to understand. She understood, and said nothing about it, and prayed for the power to forgive, and did forgive. But he can't have found living with her forgiveness all that easy. Breakfast in a haze of forgiveness: coffee with forgiveness, porridge with forgiveness, forgiveness on the buttered toast. He would have been helpless against it, for how can you repudiate something that is never spoken? She resented, too, the nurse, or the many nurses, who had attended my father in the various hospitals. She wished him to owe his recovery to her alone--to her care, to her tireless devotion. That is the other side of selflessness: its tyranny.
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marriage
selflessness
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Margaret Atwood |
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I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.
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prejudice
love
selflessness
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Thomas Hardy |
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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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heroism
selflessness
hero
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Lloyd Alexander |
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In a pocket of his knapsack he'd found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and then poured his own cup with hot water and sat blowing at the rim. You promised not to do that, the boy said. What? You know what, Papa. He poured the hot water back into the pan and took the boy's cup and poured some of the cocoa into his own and then handed it back. I have to watch you all the time, the boy said.
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sacrifice
love
generosity
selflessness
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Cormac McCarthy |
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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.
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selflessness
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
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"What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?"
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woman
inspirational
selflessness
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Virginia Woolf |
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"Oh. A bigger studio. It dawns on me, stupid me, that Henry could win the lottery at any time at all; that he has never bothered to do so because it's not normal; that he has decided to set aside his fanatical dedication to living like a normal person so I can have a studio big enough to roller-skate across; that I am being an ingrate. "Clare? Earth to Clare..." "Thank you," I say, too abruptly."
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love
thanks
selflessness
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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In spite of his mildness and timidity in reproving, every one about him knew that on the exceptional occasions when he chose, he was absolute. He never, indeed, chose to be absolute except on some one else's behalf.
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selflessness
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George Eliot |
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...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.
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love
inspirational
selfless-love
selfless-service
selflessness
help
christian
service
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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Nothing was really so important to my father as the achievement of selflessness. He rarely mentioned it directly, but tried to guide us to it in a roundabout way.
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selflessness
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Tahir Shah |
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The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own peace of mind. I can only have for myself what I am willing to wish for you.
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prayer
kindness
empathy
compassion
blessings-quotes
peace-of-mind
prayer-quotes
prayerful-habits
prayerful-life
prayers-answered
wish-creation
wishes-fulfilled
power-of-love
giving
charity
sharing
generosity
selflessness
prosperity
inner-peace
thoughtful
power-of-thoughts
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Marianne Williamson |
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How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!
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mourning
friendship
selflessness
sad
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Anne Brontë |
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She also keeps talking about the Billie Holiday record she bought for me. And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have to listen to Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. It almost feels like of the three things involved: Mary Elizabeth, me, and the great things, only the first one matters to Mary Elizabeth. I don't understand that. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.
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kindness
love
histrionic-people
obnoxious-people
self-centered-people
snobs
selflessness
selfishness
gifts
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Stephen Chbosky |
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I think that she is everything I have ever loved about our religion distilled down to fit into one person, everything about the faith that is both selfless and responsible.
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responsibility
religion
love
selflessness
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Ann Patchett |
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"Loyalty," he stated, ineffably gentle. "A quality honoured by sages and fools, by which humankind finds the courage to trample the reflex for self-preservation."
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selflessness
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Janny Wurts |
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Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion. The more one gives, the more one has the give - like milk in the breast.
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giving-quotes
selflessness
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
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He held back nothing of himself in his effort to please his audience
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don-t-hold-back
no-holding-back
performing
please-like-me
please-others
selflessness
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Peter Carey |