A Quote by John Dufresne

A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?

John Dufresne

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Desire Ever Love Love Is Pure Pure Love Selfless Selfless Love

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John Dufresne
American - Author
Born: January 30, 1948

Selfless-giving burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless-giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice because we do all of it only for love.

Frederick Lenz

When no one is selfless in a relationship, there is war. When one is selfless, there is peace. When both are selfless, there is joy.

Royce White

Selfless giving does not imply superiority. Selfless giving is about love.

Frederick Lenz

I feel the grandparent-grandchild relationship is one of the most innocent and selfless ones. It is all about pure love and affection.

Mohan Joshi

No one becomes pure and selfless overnight; it involves time and concentrated effort, coupled with tremendous patience and love.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Even when we speak of selflessness, the mind goes to "me." We think, "I'm selfless," but everything is selfless.

Sakyong Mipham

To love is to be selfless. To be selfless is to be fearless. To be fearless is to strip your enemies of their greatest weapon. Even if they break our bodies and drain our blood, we are unvanquished. Our goal was never to live; our goal is to love. It is the goal of all truly noble men and women. Give all that can be given. Give even your life itself.

N.D. Wilson

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.

Gretchen Rubin

Anybody who's had children knows this feeling of deep love. It's a selfless love, an unconditional love. And it makes you kind of examine everything that has happened.

Jennifer Lopez

The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.

Abdu'l-Bahá

Fostering is the most worthwhile and selfless act of love you can ever imagine. The children will teach you so much about your own life.

Jen Lilley

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

Eric Hoffer

Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

Nathaniel Branden

I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back.

Cammie McGovern

given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in the love between man and dog...It is a completely selfless love.