Quotes - Joseph Emond (Calgary, AB, Canada) Showing 1-12 of 12

#1

“It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it'.”
― Audrey Hepburn

tags: selflessness

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#2

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that is wants to live humbly for one.”
― Wilhelm Stekel

tags: catcher-in-the-rye, immaturity, quoted, salinger, selflessness

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#3

“Love" is a that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own...Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy”
― Robert Heinlein

tags: jealousy, love, selflessness

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#4

“It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: selflessness

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#5

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: selflessness

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#7

“You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

tags: courage, inspirational, jinnah, life, making-a-difference, selflessness

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#8

“A dog has one aim in life... to bestow his heart.”
― J. R. Ackerley

tags: care, dog, doglovers, humanity, kindness, love, peace, selflessness

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#9

“If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

tags: love, possessiveness

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#10

“Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.”
― Arthur Miller, All My Sons

tags: desire, need, selflessness

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#11

“Give until it hurts.”
― Corazon Cojuangco Aquino

tags: giving, kindness, selflessness

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#12

“A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: common-sense, courage, grenade, hero, lack-of-common-sense, metaphorically-speaking, self-sacrifice, soldier

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#13

“The only honorable, desirable kind of fear that shouldn't be feared is the fear of harm on a loved one. It's the kind of fear that leads to self-sacrifice and the kind of fear where you would truly jump in front of a bus to save another.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

tags: bravery, courage, fear, love, sacrifice, self-sacrifice, selflessness

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