Luc de Clapiers Quotes

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

Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.

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

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world

It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others.

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

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

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!

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

you have to understand. i wasn't just thinking of me. i was thinking of her, too.

What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want.

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.

I'm trying to teach people not to be selfish. That's the thing. If you have a good thing share it. Of course we're not in a sexual relationship.

It's curious how, when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.

It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good.

There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.

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.