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“Some ego is involved because I guess one wants to be perceived as a good clown and one puts one's name on the art; but it's so hard to do anything in life, trapped as we are in our bodies, that is purely selfless for others... somehow the self is always involved.”

Want Art Self Hard Body Names Involved Ego Selfless Trapped Clown Anything In Life

Author:Jonathan Ames

“To me love is passionate, it is honest, and it is selfless. Love is willing to completely give up your life for someone, to make sacrifices and put them first.”

Giving Firsts Love Is Sacrifice Honest Willing Giving Up Passionate Selfless Selfless Love

Author:Benjamin Stone

“When I'm around people who are incredibly passionate about what they're doing, people who live their lives in a more selfless way than most people. That's when I'm inspired. That's what I aspire to do and be.”

People Way Inspired Passionate Selfless Aspire

Author:John Rzeznik

“To me love is passionate, it is honest, and it is selfless.”

Love Is Honest Passionate Selfless

Author:Benjamin Stone

“Raising children has made me more patient and selfless.”

Children Made Patient Selfless Raising Children

Author:Candace Cameron

“Yoga is more a state than a methodology. A state where there is nothing missing. You don't feel like you have to grab this or grab that in order to be complete or full. From wringing out the body and the mind, from sitting in meditation, from studying scripture, from selfless service.”

Feels Mind States Body Order Study Meditation Missing Like You Yoga Sitting Scripture Selfless Selfless Service Methodology

Author:Colleen Saidman

“I looked at the job of piano accompanist. It's a selfless position and generally they are odd people, according to opera singers I talked to. Just like everybody else, they want more from their life, but now their job is to make others shine.”

People Want Jobs Position Shining Singers Odd Piano Opera Selfless Opera Singers Accompanists

Author:Simon Helberg

“I'm very proud to be part of a cast that's gonna put Hot Shots on screen for the first time, Hot Shots are the first line of defense against wildland fire and these guys are so selfless, they are guys that do what they do without wanting any kind of attention for it.”

Firsts Kind Guy Lines Attention Fire Proud Shots First Time Hot Casts Defense Screens Selfless Hot Shots

Author:Miles Teller

“In this cash-rich, time-poor culture of ours, the most precious commodity we have is time...volunteering our precious time, is in this brutally self-involved world, the most truly selfless act”

World Love Self Happiness Culture Friendship Poor Family Rich Relationship Involved Cash Selfless Commodity Volunteer Precious Time

Author:Sally Brampton

“We have good people. We have selfless people. We have great leaders.”

People Leader Good People Selfless Great Leader

Author:Eden Robinson

“In fact there are beautiful people in this world doing incredibly selfless acts over and over and over. Dedicating their lives completely for the welfare and happiness of others.”

People World Facts Beautiful This World Welfare Selfless Beautiful People

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“The best thing anyone can give to humanity is God consciousness. Then you can really give them something. But first you have to concentrate on your own spiritual advancement; so in a sense we have to become selfish to become selfless.”

Giving Firsts Spiritual Humanity Consciousness Selfish Best Things Selfless Advancement

Author:George Harrison

“Colleges seem to want candidates that are so well-rounded they'd have to be two different people use together with mutually exclusive characteristics! They have to be gung ho athletes and sensitive artists, studious nerds and gregarious social networkers, future rulers of the universe and selfless altruists.”

“Develop divine love. Divine love is completely selfless.”

Love Is Divine Selfless Divine Love

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Purity comes from Seva... it comes from selfless love.”

Purity Selfless Selfless Love

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.”

Ifs Men Doe Two Would Be Spiritual Spirituality Interest Opposites Two Things Selfless Providence Lots Of Money Cricket Commentary Endorsements

Author:Imran Khan

“That's what YouTube's become, it's become like a lot of vloggers capitalizing on this sort of like "My fans, I love my fans, hey guys." I've grown up and kind of been disgusted by that. I think it's using people, I think it's like encouraging something that's unhealthy, telling people you love them. "I love you." Oh really, you love your fans? You love the people that give you money and attention? Of course you do, that's not selfless that you love your fans, that's ridiculous.”

People Thinking Giving Kind Guy Courses Attention Fans Love You Ridiculous Hey Selfless Youtube Unhealthy Disgusted Using People

Author:Bo Burnham

“There are some universal elements when it comes to motherhood - especially for Black moms. Black women are selfless. Many women think of their children before they think about themselves.”

Thinking Children Black Mom Motherhood Selfless Black Women

Author:Tichina Arnold

“I've been told that I'm a very different person on the set than I am in postproduction when the movie's over and I'm editing, in that I get so wound up in the film that I become selfless to the point where I lose too much weight.”

Different Film Wounds Selfless

Author:Steven Spielberg

“Love is a balance between independence and interdependence. In love, you want to be independent and interdependent. You want to be a little bit selfish and a little bit selfless. Love can be an antidote to loneliness, as long as there is some aloneness in it.”

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Author:Bruce Feiler

“When you are portraying a person that is very real, in my case, Katherine Johnson is still alive, she is 98-years old; there is a responsibility to get it right. I guess the biggest thing that I took away from Katherine was her humility. When you talk about superheroes there are selfless, they don't think about themselves, they put humanity first.”

Thinking Real Humanity Responsibility Humility Selfless Superhero

Author:Taraji P. Henson

“I know that actors and actresses have a great reputation for being very, very selfish, and in some cases, that's very true. But in the theater I find it doesn't help you to be selfish. You sort of have to be selfless in the theater, and the more selfless you are - that doesn't mean don't take care of yourself - but the more you sort of surrender to the work, I find, the better the work is. That's just my experience.”

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Author:Laura Linney

“The true power of love is found in selfless attitudes and actions that seek the best for another person without expecting anything in return. When we act in that way, the feeling of love follows close behind.”

Feelings Action Love Is Attitude Expecting Selfless Power Of Love

Author:David Jeremiah

“Every day, do something selfless for someone else that takes under five minutes. The essence of this thing you do should be that it makes a big difference to the person receiving the gift. Usually these favors take the form of an introduction, reference, feedback, or broadcast on social media. Do something that's not for yourself, every single day. Expect nothing in return. Over time, these random acts of kindness will really add up.”

Kindness Social Media Selfless Feedback Introduction Acts Of Kindness

Author:Adam Rifkin

“There's Chile and there's Uruguay, and no one quite knows why Uruguay is so appealingly selfless because they've had their terror and their revolution like all the rest. But somehow, there's something in them.”

Revolution Terror Selfless

Author:Martin Amis

“To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.”

Inspirational Sports Inspiring Acting Five Basketball Teamwork Selfless Inspirational Sports Team Building Basketball Coach Great Coach Basketball Teamwork Team Goal Great Teamwork Teamwork And Love Unity And Teamwork

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.”

Servant Encounters Selfless Firefighter Public Servants

Author:Denis Leary

“A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.”

People Giving Trying Helping Care Spirit Hero Generous Selfless Giving Back

Author:Debi Mazar

“For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.”

Humanity Force Mortality Selfless Monk Betterment

Author:James McAvoy

“The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.”

Want Needs Giving Parent Ability One Thing Giving Up Benefits Selfless Being A Parent Wants And Needs

Author:Danny McBride

“If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!”

Ifs Keys Happy Miserable Selfishness Selfless Being Happy Selflessness True Happiness Narcissistic Egoism Egocentric

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.”

“Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.”

Generous Selfless Benevolent Unselfish Unselfishness Unselfish Love Being Selfless

Author:Mortimer Adler

“Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.”

Way Divine Direct Salvation Remove Selfless Moksha Divine Life

Author:Sivananda

“Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.”

World Two Different Mom Ego Singers Selfless Being A Mom Different Worlds Two Different Worlds Being Selfless

Author:Gwen Stefani

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.”

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Author:Niels Bohr

“The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I am not saying that capitalist theory is wrong. I am saying that it has not been interpreted and practiced fully.”

People Persons Theory Profit Capitalist Selfless Orientation

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

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Author:Mother Teresa

“I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless love of my mother. I have none of the plodding, practical love. . . . . I am, to be blunt and concise, in love only with myself, my puny being with its small inadequate breasts and meager, thin talents. I am capable of affection for those who reflect my own world.”

World Mother My Own Talent Capable Affection Practicals Breasts Selfless Shocking Inadequate Blunt Selfless Love Concise My Own World Shocking Things

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes.”

Purpose Doubt Strive Selfish Selfless Selfless Service Power Of God

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.”

Sometimes Play Can Do Brain Player Building Blue Selfish Genes Selfless Organisms Interiors Blueprints Monologues Selfish Gene

Author:Steven Pinker

“Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.”

Giving Fall Love Is Weakness Constant Selfless Giving In

Book:Girl Talk

Source: Girl Talk

“A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.”

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Book:The Four Loves

Source: The Four Loves

“Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit.”

Art Joy Spirit Audience Virtue Share Expression Art Is Accomplishment Awe Selfless

Book:True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor

Source: True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor

“Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.”

Views Truth Is Selfless Balanced Subjectivity

Author:Knut Hamsun

“Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself.”

Believe Important Sometimes Evil Walks Courage Hero Victory Standing Selfless Heroism

Book:Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards

Source: Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards

“The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.”

“And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else's gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another's eyes.”

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Author:Meg Rosoff

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