From Viktor Frankl: “What is to give light must endure burning.”
Tag Archives: selflessness
Quote of the day 12/23/25
From Zhuangzi: “The perfect man has no self; the spiritual man has no achievement.”
Quote of the day 12/12/25
From William James: “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
Quote of the day 11/07/25
From Socrates: “It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong.”
Quote of the day 10/06/25
From Śāntideva: “But if, through seeking happiness, my deeds are wrong, no matter where I turn my steps, the knives of misery will cut me down, the wage and retribution of a sinful life.”
Quote of the day 09/18/25
From Xenophon: “There is a deep—and usually frustrated—desire in the heart of everyone to act with benevolence rather than selfishness, and one fine instance of generosity can inspire dozens more.”
Quote of the day 04/09/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Though the self, the selfish self, must disappear, emotion remains and this emotion is love.”
Quote of the day 01/04/25
From William Blake: “The most sublime act is to set another before you.”
Quote of the day 12/31/24
From William Blake: “Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.”
Quote of the day 12/01/24
From Lao Tzu: “Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.”
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