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• Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Topics in Love

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• Even after all this time,
  The sun never says to the earth,
  “You owe me.”
  Look what happens with
  A love like that.
  It lights the whole sky.

  Hafez

  Topics in Appreciation, Expectations, Friendship, Kindness, Life, Love

  Tags in Gratitude, Generosity, Hospitality, Giving, Forgiveness, Freedom, Faith

• If I give you my idea and you give me yours, then we each have two ideas, and together we have four.

  Gerard Nierenberg

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• Simple human solidarity was the shtetl’s source of strength…A ghost of the shtetl lingers on in the modern living institutions of Israel.

  Amos Elon

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• A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

  Bertolt Brecht

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• As accidental as my life may be, or as random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial as myself.

  Anthony Ashley Cooper

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• If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?

  Rabbi Hillel

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• No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as life not be, as not be ourselves.

  William Hazlitt

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• Everybody has his own theater, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

  Julius Charles Hare

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• One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

  G. K. Chesterton

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• The ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself.

  Thomas Carlyle

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• The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man’s self.

  Francis Bacon

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• It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

  Adam Smith

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  Tags in Benevolence, Expect, Interest, Giving

• Even wisdom has to yield to self interest.

  Pindar

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• Self-interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of roles, even that of disinterestedness.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

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• The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

  William Hazlitt

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  Tags in Destruction, Pain, Value, Concern, Giving

• Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

  Gene Fowler

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  Tags in Men, Giving

• Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

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• Self-sacrifice helps us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

  George Bernard Shaw

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• Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grew.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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