James Baldwin Quotes

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

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.

Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.

You are your best self when you give yourself away.

Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

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

Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

I say to my children, the reason that marriage - and having children - is so important is that it stops you thinking about yourself. The way to happiness is to give yourself to others and to think of others before you think of yourself.

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.

Often, we do not know where our choices will take us. This is why the best choices are often made based not on what they can bring to us, but what they will allow us to bring to others.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Giving up something personal to the public, you are surrendering something.

The most important thing is you have to want to do something for somebody other than yourself.