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“The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course-service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.”

Ifs Giving Helping Life Is Courses Peace Secret Effects Be Good Helping Others Inner Peace Motive Secret Life Outgoing

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves.”

Love Games Loses Secret Fool Self Love Aim Motive Cunning Stratagem

Book:More Stately Mansions

Source: More Stately Mansions

“The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.”

Secret Innocent Guilty Innocence Motive Absent Absent Minded Absent Mindedness

Author:Saul Bellow

“The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and justly weigh every motive. For such an audience there is need neither of affectation nor of restraint. Sincerity is what they ask, detail, and volume; skill with the pen comes in conveniently, but brilliance is not necessary; genius is a hindrance even; and should you know your business and do it manfully, posterity will let you off mixing with great men, reporting famous affairs, or having lain with the first ladies in the land.”

Source: Collected essays

“I talk to groups studying the most advanced spiritual teachings and sometimes these people wonder why nothing is happening in their lives. Their motive is the attainment of inner peace for themselves - which of course is a selfish motive. You will not find it with this motive. The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course, service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.”

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.”

Actors Social Secret Motive Prerequisites Social Systems

Book:Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers?

Source: Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers?

“All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.”

Firsts Matter Together Political Nations Party Secret Principles Dangerous Pure Bounds Motive Patriotic Political Parties Oath

Book:The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.

Source: The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.

“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.”

Men Facts Happiness Joy Secret Willing Laughter Gains Endure All Time Motive Finding Happiness

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature