Edward Dahlberg Quotes

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

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

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

I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.

A therapist might suggest my generosity is a way of buying affection. But buying people's love has never been an issue for me. Generally speaking, I don't want their love.

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

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

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

Yeah, I'm a giver. I've learned to be selective of the people in my world, because if I love someone, I will give them my blood, whatever they need. In doing so, one can end up with little left for themselves.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

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

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.

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.

Dear is your heart and close your hand, I relinquish all to love's dysmorphic command.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.

I'd make a good friend, not mother. I'm too selfish. I think a lot of mothers are selfish and they end up having children, but I don't want to put some small tiny person through that.