David Deida Quotes

A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I'm doing is not good.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

That we are selfish gives us the opportunity to gain the power so that, in time, we might be selfless. To give back what we have learned. To teach what we know, and shorten the journey for those who will come after us.

I can't say the connection is one I've made consciously, but quitting drinking allowed me to be less selfish. My wife would definitely say that one of the major benefits of me quitting drinking is that I have more time and focus for other people.

Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.

Of all the definitions of love that abound in our universe, a special favorite of mine is... “the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.”

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

Fill your mind with truth; fill your heart with love; fill your life with service.

In business people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.

Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now. There’s a confusion in each of us, a sickness, really: selfishness. But there’s also a cure. So be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf - seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life.

Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

I am a great motivator. I have struggles in my life, and the only way I can push through them is to motivate others. It really is quite selfish.

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.

Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.

It takes a lot of work to be a great mother, a great daughter, and a great friend. All those things take effort, and I think, after having my daughter, she opened up this fearlessness within me, and I'm setting an example for her.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.