Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

Love is doing something you don't want to do for someone you don't particularly like at that moment.

To be saved is only this-salvation from our own selfishness.

Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.

The secret to greatness is in serving everyone else.

Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.

Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among many.

We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness.

Selfish is easy. It's sharing that takes courage.

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.

You will never find a truly happy self-centered person. They simply don't exist.

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.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Learning to live for others isn't something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

You will begin to succeed with your life when the pains and problems of others matter to you.

Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.

Have you known what it is to give your meal to another and to go without yourself? It gives a happiness that no dinner eaten by yourself can give. Have you known what it is to give your coat to another and do without it yourself? It gives a joy that the satisfaction of your own wants cannot give you.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.