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Selflessness Quotes

"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous"
Henry Ford
"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love"
Maya Angelou
"I don't want to feel like I've worked this hard and went away from my family just to do something selfish."
Jessica Alba
"If you are feeling helpless, help someone."
Aung San Suu Kyi
"To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person"
Erich Fromm
"To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another."
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
"Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity"
Ian McEwan
"We only have what we give."
Isabel Allende
"You give but little when you give of your possessions It is when you give of yourself that you truly give"
Khalil Gibran
"It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about"
Leo Tolstoy
"To change the world, we must be good to those who cannot repay us."
Pope Francis
"There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."
Ronald Reagan
"The function of freedom is to free someone else"
Toni Morrison
"The only way of knowing a person is by loving them without hope"
Walter Benjamin