Jacky Ickx Quotes

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

It's always a good feeling when you can help instead of just receiving help.

It is important for me to help others because I was also helped by others before I became part of the Black Eyed Peas.

Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.

It was in my heart to help a little because I was helped much.

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

If you want to serve the universe, the obvious place to begin is right where you are. That's where I began. I looked at every situation I came into and wondered, 'What can I do to be of service in this situation?' Sometimes there was nothing I could do, but often there was - a helping hand, a word of cheer, a pleasant smile. Then, after I had given a lot, a most wonderful spiritual receiving began - giving me more to give.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

What was freely given to me, I freely give.

If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.

I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.

I run a bunch of charities and I say this line to people: 'I am somebody who has always been helped.' A little thing like that can make people believe it.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered.

It matters more how one gives than what one gives.

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

I'll tell you where my heart is - my heart is just to try to give back.

I have been given much, and so I want to give as much as I can.

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.

If you can't pay it back, pay it forward.

It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered.

We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.

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