In the beginning, the price of giving great love is risking that it won't be returned. Until you understand, of course, that great love is always returned. With interest.
Mike DooleyTag: true-love selfless-love
Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just a general of forgotten battles compared with the queen who paid for Shakespeare's meals and beer in the tavern. The statesman who in his time freed the slaves, even he has a few enemies in posterity, whereas the literary patron has none. We thank Gaius Maecenas for the nobility of soul we attribute to Virgil; but he isn’t blamed for the selfishness and egocentricity that the poet possessed. The patron creates 'literature through altruism,' something not even the greatest genius can do with a pen.
Roman PayneTag: money shakespeare selflessness tribute respect beer queen helping-others help battles virgil selfless-service altruism selfless-love napoleon queen-elizabeth patronage gaius-maecenas literary-patrons maecenas mecene napoleon-boneparte patron patron-of-the-arts sponsorship statesman tributes
...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.
Elisabeth ElliotTag: inspirational love blessings selflessness service christian help selfless-service selfless-love
When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to you and to your life. If you were selfless, it would have to mean that you derive no personal pleasure or happiness from the company and the existence of the person you love, and that you are motivated only by self-sacrificial pity for that person's need of you. I don't have to point out to you that no one would be flattered by, nor would accept, a concept of that kind. Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person.
Ayn RandTag: happiness love selflessness selfless-love
When I give, I give myself
Walt WhitmanTag: selfless-love
Only God can give us a selfless love for others, as the Holy Spirit changes us from within. This is one reason we must receive Christ, for apart from His Spirit we can never be freed from the chains of selfishness, jealousy, and indifference. Will others see Christ's love in your life today?
Billy GrahamTag: selflessness jesus christ holy-spirit selfless-love
Will had laid down his heart for her and Jem to walk upon because he loved them more than he loved himself
Cassandra ClareTag: selfless-love
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