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
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