Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 23, 2025
Because I believe in unselfishness and know that love is the essence of things, I find in all the world nothing more beautiful than that, and think that she has no other task in life, except to see that the self which she gives is her best and Inghest, and to hold to the thought of the sacredness of what she is doing.
Before their own sex they are natural enough; before men they are eternally attitudinizing. We should be sorry to say that this repulsive form of vanity always takes its root in excessive self-love, but still a tinge of unselfishness seems to us the best antidote against it.
Now, Dampier observed 'the two fore-teeth of their upper jaw are wanting in all of them, men and women, old and young. If this is to be taken quite literally, the Bora rite, in 1688, must have included the women, at least locally. The natives had neither boats, canoes, nor bark logs; but it seems that they had their religious mysteries and their unselfishness, two hundred years ago.
Besides, he greatly loved his daughters, and though it is easy to say that the greatest love is the greatest unselfishness, yet do we find a weakness in our hearts which we cannot believe wholly wrong, strongly prompting us to yearn and cling even unwisely to those who have our best affection.
He was human, very human, but he was no scoffer or doubter. His religion was of the heart, and his faith beyond questioning. He taught the world, said Dean Stanley over his new-made grave in Westminster Abbey, great lessons of "the eternal value of generosity, of purity, of kindness, and of unselfishness," and by his fruits he shall be known of all men.
"Such goodness such unselfishness!" she kept murmuring to herself; and then she wanted to hear all that Allan and I proposed. "How I wish I could get strong and help you," she said, wistfully, when I had finished. "With all that teaching and housekeeping, I am afraid you will overtax your strength." "Oh, no, Carrie will help me," I returned, confidently.
Our altruistic inclinations are often perverted, non-representative, a matter of instinctive and irrational sympathy or shortsighted impulse. And so, while one of the great tasks of moral education is to make men unselfish, that alone is not enough; unselfishness must be directed by reason and tact, rendered far-sighted and intelligent. What mental and moral obstacles hinder altruistic action?
Thus it happened that the poor inventor had not toiled in vain for the child that he loved. Tiffles with that strange unselfishness sometimes found in men of his class had not thought of or desired any compensation for his services, other than the payment of all the bills incurred in the operation.
There was no more trumpeting or calling from the elephant, but a sinister silence through which he was trying to reach me. He had come to the end of his unselfishness. In order to save himself, he was willing to step on me. The monkey screamed from the tree-top and I, jumping off the elephant's back, fell on the ground and ran.
It is based in reality upon the noble element in humanity, the power of love and trust and unselfishness which rises superior to the ills of life; and the force of Christianity lies in the fact that it reveals to men the greatness of which they are capable, and the fact that no squalor or wretchedness of circumstances can bind the thought of man, if it is set upon what is high and pure.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking