Poe Ballantine Quotes

I've discovered new parts of my manhood, places I couldn't get to without loving someone else unconditionally and putting others before myself.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

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

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Look, I would say that anyone who does this work and doesn't have a strain of idealism is an adrenaline junkie or completely narcissistic. There is no other justification. You're risking your life, and if anything happens, it's our families who suffer tremendously.

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

To be compassionate is not a joke. It's not that simple. One has to discover a certain bigness in oneself. That bigness should be centered on oneself, not in terms of money, not in terms of power you wield, not in terms of any status that you can command in the society, but it should be centered on oneself.

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.

I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart.

It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.

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