Judith Leiber Quotes

It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

I'm not - I'm not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I don't seek power. I don't seek any kind of praise. I have no ego to fulfill.

You can love someone but not want to keep a gift from that person. It's okay to pass an item along to someone who will appreciate it more.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

One who has no love in his heart will try to possess everything for himself. One who has love in his heart is ready to sacrifice everything, including his own body, for the benefit of others.

To get something you must give something away. To hold something you must give something away. To love something you must give something away.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods.

I don't feel opportunistic ever, in anything.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

You've got to give away what you love.

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I'm doing is not good.