The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of… — David Truman Copy Share Image
For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥ — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
But what after all, behind appearance, is the seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself,… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
But what after all, behind appearances, is this seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
If happiness comes at all: which is by no means prearranged; it comes by the way, while you are seeking for something… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours… — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness,… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Holiness consists in doing God’s will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
