Terry Tempest Williams Quotes

She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.

Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.

You have to let go of the things that are darling to you. You have to take the focus off yourself and put it on the shape of the scene and the intention of what everyone else needs.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it's our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it's because we're focused on ourselves!

I cannot tell people who are struggling that I come first. I just cannot.

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

I've always carried the burdens of everyone I love and try to make sure everyone else is good rather than focus on myself.

It's always easier to sacrifice when you're not the one who has to do it.

I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.

It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.

Sometimes you have to put your own dreams on hold temporarily so you can help release a dream in somebody else. What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.

Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.

I see that I must give what I most need.

Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has. --Mon Semblable

She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.

The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.

I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and that is how I think we have to work.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.

So often our sisters comfort others when their own needs are greater than those being comforted. That quality is like the generosity of Jesus on the cross. Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity!

If you will focus on meeting other people’s needs, God will always make sure your needs are supplied. God will take care of your problems for you.

The needs of others are ever present, and each of us can do something to help someone.... Unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives.

Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.

We are all wise for other people, none for himself.

Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.