The practice of cultivating altruism has a beneficial effect not only from the religious point of view but also from the mundane point of view, not only for long term spiritual development but even in terms of immediate rewards.
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 Dalai Lama Xiv
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
The more you are motivated by Love, The more Fearless & Free your action will be.
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.
