{"quotes":[{"text":"The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["advantage","altruism","benefit","charity","compassion","empathy","gene","genes","genie","ghandi","humanity","humor","humour","mahatma-ghandi","mandela","mercy","mother-teresa","nelson-mandela","object","philosopher","philosophy","pleasure","satire","satirist","selfish","selfishness","selfless","selflessness","social-criticism","sympathy","teresa","unselfish","unselfishness"],"id":41834,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself.","author":"Elisabeth Elliot","tags":["christiann","inspirational","prayer","selfish","serve","unselfish"],"id":53712,"author_id":"Elisabeth+Elliot"},{"text":"We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["altruism","charity","compassion","empathy","gene","genes","genie","ghandi","humanity","humor","humour","mahatma-ghandi","mandela","mercy","mother-teresa","motivation","motive","motives","nelson-mandela","pain","philosopher","philosophy","pleasure","satire","satirist","selfish","selfishness","selfless","selflessness","social-criticism","sympathy","teresa","unselfish","unselfishness"],"id":93420,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.","author":"Gautama Buddha","tags":["abundance","buddha","buddhism","pure","unselfish"],"id":100474,"author_id":"Gautama+Buddha"},{"text":"In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["altruism","breakup","breakups","charity","compassion","debt","divorce","empathy","fail","failure","feed","food","gene","genes","genie","ghandi","heart","hearts","humanity","humor","humour","job","kitchen","loss","love","lover","lovers","mahatma-ghandi","man","mandela","marriage","men","mercy","mortgage","mother-teresa","nelson-mandela","nutrition","occupation","partner","partners","philosopher","philosophy","poverty","rent","rental","romance","satire","satirist","security","selfish","selfishness","selfless","selflessness","social-criticism","spouse","spouses","starvation","stomach","sympathy","teresa","tummy","unemployment","unselfish","unselfishness","woman","women"],"id":115241,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["altruism","charity","compassion","empathy","gene","genes","genie","ghandi","humanity","humor","humour","impossibility","impossible","mahatma-ghandi","mandela","mercy","mother-teresa","nelson-mandela","philosopher","philosophy","satire","satirist","selfish","selfishness","selfless","selflessness","social-criticism","sympathy","teresa","unselfish","unselfishness"],"id":119523,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Being selfish only benefits a few. Considering others benefits all of mankind.","author":"Terraine Francois","tags":["inspirations","mankind","unselfish"],"id":143396,"author_id":"Terraine+Francois"},{"text":"Helpful is happy.Selfish is sad.(It's not uncommon to confuse the two.).","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["helpful","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","sad","selfish","unhappy","unhelpful","unselfish"],"id":232084,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"You don't give up on people you truly love. Whether they are in your life or stand on the edge of your heart, you want them to be happy. This is the truest kind of love because it gives more than it ever receives.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["blessed","christ-like","concerned","holy","knowing","no-coincidences","protective","rare","real","sacrafice","sacraficing","selfless","truest-love","unselfish"],"id":249546,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["charities","charity","good-samaritan","good-samaritans","help","helped","helper","helpers","helping","humanitarian","humanitarians","mistake","mistakes","sacrifice","sacrifices","selfish","selfishness","selfless","selflessness","sympathetic","sympathies","sympathy","unselfish","unselfishness"],"id":252243,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}