{"quotes":[{"text":"A mature person reaps joy in the commonplace acts of living, appreciates the serenity of just being, while balancing the responsibilities that come naturally about when deeply immersed in family and community affairs. Directing their attention outward, assisting other people in their troubled times, while denying themselves the indulgence of self-absorption frees a person’s bidding mind from a jumble of discordant thoughts, wants, and unholy bequests.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["disquiet","enlightenent","enlightenment","peaceful","peacefulness","philosophical-musings","philosophy-of-life","philsophical-thought","self-awareness","self-realization","self-transcendence","self-transformation","selfless","selfless-love","selfless-service"],"id":13957,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Our most intense joy comes not from personal feats, but from helping other persons achieve their goals. We become suppler human beings when we find true joy in witnessing other people’s successes and unabashedly share in their joyful accomplishments.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["joy","joyful","joyful-living","joyful-living","joyful","self-transcendence","self-transformation","selfless","selfless-deeds","selfless-service","selflessness","transcendence","transformation"],"id":103387,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Karma Yoga is mindful service to the humanity with love and respect.","author":"Amit Ray","tags":["karma-yoga","karma-yoga-the-yoga-of-action","love-and-respect","mindfulness","selfless-service","serving-humanity"],"id":106041,"author_id":"Amit+Ray"},{"text":"...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.","author":"Elisabeth Elliot","tags":["blessings","christian","help","inspirational","love","selfless-love","selfless-service","selflessness","service"],"id":123053,"author_id":"Elisabeth+Elliot"},{"text":"You learn to be resilient, to survive when you know you are capable of making worthy contribution to the world; you fight it when you have nothing to lose and so much to gain.","author":"Mala Naidoo","tags":["courage","inspirational","resilience","selfless-service"],"id":140795,"author_id":"Mala+Naidoo"},{"text":"True service is when you serve others without expecting anything in return.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["destiny","god","kingdom","life","love","money","people","purpose","selfless-service","service","serving-god","serving-others","time","work","worship"],"id":166644,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"One of the greatest purposes a man/woman can ever be indulged in is the positive evolution of self for the selfless service to humanity.","author":"Ufuoma Apoki","tags":["evolution","humanity","positive-change","positivity-that-creates-change","purpose","self-evolution","selfless-service","service"],"id":170245,"author_id":"Ufuoma+Apoki"},{"text":"Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just a general of forgotten battles compared with the queen who paid for Shakespeare's meals and beer in the tavern. The statesman who in his time freed the slaves, even he has a few enemies in posterity, whereas the literary patron has none. We thank Gaius Maecenas for the nobility of soul we attribute to Virgil; but he isn’t blamed for the selfishness and egocentricity that the poet possessed. The patron creates 'literature through altruism,' something not even the greatest genius can do with a pen.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["altruism","battles","beer","gaius-maecenas","help","helping-others","literary-patrons","maecenas","mecene","money","napoleon","napoleon-boneparte","patron","patron-of-the-arts","patronage","queen","queen-elizabeth","respect","selfless-love","selfless-service","selflessness","shakespeare","sponsorship","statesman","tribute","tributes","virgil"],"id":194058,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["america","attain","citizenship","community","country","death","die","fight","forsake","gain","god","government","greed","honor","humanitarian","loss","loyality","personal-affairs","politics","protect","religion","revolution","rights","rule","sacrifice","samaritan","security","selfless-service","serve","soldier","spirt","steal","take","unite","war","will","world","world-affairs"],"id":239659,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes.","author":"Thomas S. Monson","tags":["faith","god","purpose","selfless-service"],"id":407007,"author_id":"Thomas+S.+Monson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}