Leonard Cohen Quotes

Jealousy, greed, fear. We're all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn't matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You'd jump in to save him.

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most complacently we identify the ego.

I have found that the more I get my ego out of a picture and the more I think about how can I serve other people instead of always thinking about me, the more miracles show up.

We must take man as we find him, and if we expect him to serve the public we must interest his passions in doing so.

Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.

If you serve others as fully as you can, what you do will be a source of inner joy.

Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.

If we really want to love, if we really want to live, we must love until it hurts . . . No Rotarian whose motto is Service Above Self, I think, should call himself a Rotarian if he does not make time to serve . . . If we love, we begin to serve

Service without reward is punishment.

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

Think about all the good things of your life. Never think about your difficulties. Forget yourself, and concentrate on being of service as much as you can in this world, and then, having lost your lower self in a cause greater than yourself, you will find your higher self: your real self.

Significance in life doesn’t come from status, because you can always find somebody who’s got more than you. It doesn’t come from sex. It doesn’t come from salary. It comes from serving.

One of the secrets in life is that we really lead a better life when we're living for others than we do when we're living for ourselves, and I think that's the way for our creator intended for it to be, is that if we can live for other people, we really leave this world in a different way.

Service to others leads to greatness.

I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and that is how I think we have to work.

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.

And in self-giving we become really happy. Real humility is the expansion of our consciousness and our service.

It is impossible to need excuses when the focus of your life shifts from 'What's in it for me?' to 'How can I serve?'

Power moves with you when you have an intent to serve more than yourself.

To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service.

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.