We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all.… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Appreciation is not an otherworldly or good treat which we may take or push away as per the minute's impulses, and in… — Noel 'Razor' Smith Copy Share Image
This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved,… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
“THE UNFORGIVEN Tell me if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of people: The kind who take and don't give.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“When men feel like “family”, where the blood and genetic inheritance that unites them is the force of Love, the qualities that… — Ivan Figueroa-Otero Copy Share Image
We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does. What people think and believe and plan are… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Selfish is an exploitation of others for self; selfless is an exploitation of self for others. Both are extrinsic. … Selfness. When… — Bob Samples Copy Share Image
“Wouldn't it be nice, for once, to find a world which was at peace with itself. No matter how always those few… — Garry Kilworth Copy Share Image
The way to freedom is through service to others. The way to happiness is through meditation and being in tune with God...… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Not forgiving prolongs hurt and anger and leads to smoldering resentment, which will make us miserable until it kills us. Resentment destroys… — Richard Walters Copy Share Image
In the final analysis our greatest problem with holiness is not that our concepts of holiness are feeble, but that our hearts… — Floyd McClung Copy Share Image
“Their arrogance protected them against any liking for their fellow-man, against the slightest interest in the strangers sitting all about them, amidst… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“If Lee had an example of perfect leadership, it was in the man that he most wanted to follow himself, the God-Man… — H.W. Crocker III Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental demonstrations of our natural instinct to Bond with each other is a will to give. Rather than domination,… — Lynne McTaggart Copy Share Image
“The poor man retains the prejudices of his forefathers without their faith, and their ignorance without their virtues; he has adopted the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
There are always going to be people in life that will lead you to the darkness if you let them, so keep… — JSV Copy Share Image
That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In a world where God does not exist, any reasonable person must see that the propensity toward selfishness should be the most… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
A married person does not live in isolation. He or she has made a promise, a pledge, a vow, to another person.… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...alone in this city, alone on this sea. The days were strewn about him, he was a drunkard of days. He had… — James Salter Copy Share Image
We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That's what love is supposed… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“She also keeps talking about the Billie Holiday record she bought for me. And she says she wants to expose me to… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“[A] society that insists on stressing self-expression over self-control generally gets exactly what it deserves. The sulking teenager who insists, "It's not… — Charles J. Sykes Copy Share Image
“Throughout the 1980's, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Recently, I found out things about my friends which threw my life off balance. Though a self-proclaimed cynic, there are still some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege?… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image