Because your character is always full of ambition, the news of my being locked up must have been much harder on you than it was on me. When I was arrested, it was almost a relief to know that I could now experience what you were experiencing yourself. I am so afraid that they are breaking your spirit.
Diet EmanTag: experience selflessness spirituality
Belief is not subject to the will. Men think as they must. Children do not, and cannot, believe exactly as they were taught. They are not exactly like their parents. They differ in temperament, in experience, in capacity, in surroundings. And so there is a continual, though almost imperceptible change. There is development, conscious and unconscious growth, and by comparing long periods of time we find that the old has been almost abandoned, almost lost in the new.
Robert G. IngersollTag: determinism belief selflessness change will think growth development
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 JamiTag: love compassion peace god self-sacrifice selflessness humility bible selfishness subjectivity rules conflict fighting commandments sacrifice laws apologetics consideration dispute objectivity
I do two things," she told me. "I remind myself that it's not all about me. And I focus on the good. There's always a way to find some good.
Julie CantrellTag: selflessness good
The only honorable, desirable kind of fear that shouldn't be feared is the fear of harm on a loved one. It's the kind of fear that leads to self-sacrifice and the kind of fear where you would truly jump in front of a bus to save another.
Criss JamiTag: fear love self-sacrifice selflessness courage bravery sacrifice
A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the world.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: love world selflessness marriage relationships selfishness dating philanthropy charity lover humanitarian altruism humanitarianism
Most parents are not really ‘supportive’ because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they ‘support’ their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures … in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: success parents children selflessness child selfishness failure support kids peers neighbors kid neighbours
When in doubt as to what you should do, err on the side of 'giving.
Tony CleaverTag: selflessness service charity giving
I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began
C.S. LewisTag: inspirational selflessness heaven
I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.
Katharine HepburnTag: kindness knowledge morality belief selflessness atheism atheist caring
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