{"quotes":[{"text":"You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["animal","arrogance","be-yourself","chase","circle","consideration","dog","ego","help","helping-others","narcissism","others","pet","pride","pursue","rhetorical","self","selfish","selflessness","serve","serving-others"],"id":764,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The greatest dividends in life are those that we give away.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["bless","blessing","dividends","earn","earned","endow","endowment","generosity","generous","gift-giving","gifts","give","giving","life","living","resources","sacrifice","selfless","selflessness"],"id":1762,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["ego","giving","habit","love","narcissism","pride","selfishness","selflessness","service","taking"],"id":3110,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"You must live a life of love to live an effective life.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["calling","destiny","employment","god","impact","jobless","joblessness","kingdom","life","living","love","money","opportunities","passion","people","principles","purpose","relevance","selflessness","service","serving-god","time","values","work","worship"],"id":4026,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"A dog has one aim in life... To bestow his heart.","author":"J.R. Ackerley","tags":["care","dog","doglovers","humanity","kindness","love","peace","selflessness"],"id":4747,"author_id":"J.R.+Ackerley"},{"text":"Selfishness is easy to find. Selflessness is a much rarer beast.","author":"Stewart Stafford","tags":["kindness","kindness","selfishness","selflessness"],"id":8016,"author_id":"Stewart+Stafford"},{"text":"The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea that it should be transitory. In one high bound it has overleaped the massive of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being. Spontaneously and without effort we have fulfilled the law (towards one person) by loving our neighbour as ourselves. It is an image, a foretaste, of what we must become to all if Love Himself rules in us without a rival. It is even (well used) a preparation for that.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["eros","god","love","selflessness"],"id":10301,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"},{"text":"Oh, my child, can you not see? You must let go of yourself. For if a seed wishes to live, it must sacrifice itself and grow outward, not inward.","author":"Seth Adam Smith","tags":["gardening","gardening-as-therapy","growth","sacrifice","seed","selfishness","selflessness"],"id":10764,"author_id":"Seth+Adam+Smith"},{"text":"This country has not seen and probably will never know the true level of sacrifice of our veterans. As a civilian I owe an unpayable debt to all our military. Going forward let’s not send our servicemen and women off to war or conflict zones unless it is overwhelmingly justifiable and on moral high ground. The men of WWII were the greatest generation, perhaps Korea the forgotten, Vietnam the trampled, Cold War unsung and Iraqi Freedom and Afghanistan vets underestimated. Every generation has proved itself to be worthy to stand up to the precedent of the greatest generation. Going back to the Revolution American soldiers have been the best in the world. Let’s all take a remembrance for all veterans who served or are serving, peace time or wartime and gone or still with us. 11/11/16 May God Bless America and All Veterans.","author":"Thomas M Smith","tags":["afghanistan","airforce","america","army","coast-guard","coastguard","cold-war","combat","courage","freedom","honor","independence","iraq","korea","marine-corp","marines","memorial","memorial-day","military","navy","pj-s","rangers","revolution","revolutionary","sacrifice","seals","selflessness","service","socom","sof","veteran","veterans","vietnam","war"],"id":12582,"author_id":"Thomas+M+Smith"},{"text":"Salary is the currency that is gotten from mortgaging your life and time.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["calling","destiny","employment","gift","god","impact","jobless","joblessness","kingdom","life","living","love","money","opportunities","passion","people","pragmatic","principles","purpose","relevance","selflessness","service","serving-god","skills","talents","time","values","work","worship"],"id":13270,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":286,"pages":29,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}