Conrad Anker Quotes

Having a family, taking care of your kids and people outside yourself, maybe it's motivated me more to give that extra something.

When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now I'm so much more sensitive to children that aren't my own.

Fatherhood has changed me - it has to change you. It makes you much more aware of the minutiae of life, it's not about your needs any more, its about everyone else's.

Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

Your life doesn't belong to you, it belongs to the people that love you

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

I'm nice. I love people. I love kids; I want kids of my own.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Like anyone, you could love someone, and it doesn't mean that you're equipped or you were taught or have the patience or the love or the wherewithal to be a good parent. One has nothing to do with the other.

Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being.

Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife.

Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.

Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much.

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.