Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
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Karl Lagerfeld
Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
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Brian Tracy
I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
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Kahlil Gibran
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired...
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Richard Dawkins
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Henry James
More Quotes By Leonard Bernstein
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.
The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed... because people are changed by art — enriched,...
Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange,...
Music .. . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
This will be our reply to violence:to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
