Your Life Isn't for You Quotes

“When we're constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless

“Abundance in life is achieved only when we tear down walls and fill our lives with light.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless

“In lifting another person, we also lift ourselves.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless

“I have learned that I always feel happier and healthier when I offer genuine love to other people.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless

“You don't lose yourself being selfless—you find yourself.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless

“Our joy in life is inexorably determined by the degree to which we love.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless

“A garden is beautiful only when it is filled with people; they determine its beauty”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless

“if each of us “gave up” our life in the service of others, how much more life would we inspire?”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless

“Change doesn’t happen overnight, but if you set your heart on it and take it step by step, you’ll look back and realize you are a better person. Your perspectives will change, and thus your choices—and ultimately your life—will change.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless

“When he finished serving his sentence, this once hotheaded and selfish young man emerged from prison a changed and humbled man.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless

“As if that weren’t enough, this young man had an incredible gift with writing. But his favor was about to wear out.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless

“We don’t need to do big, earth-shattering things to help another move forward, but we can do small things: a kind word, some gentle encouragement, a helping hand, a phone call, or an act of forgiveness and reconciliation. These things may seem like small gestures, but they are reflections of the life-giving light of the sun, and they will invariably guide wanderers to a greater light.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless

“We can’t move the noonday sun to light the paths of others, but we can bring our own light to them.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless

“Reflecting on that moment has illuminated my understanding about the nature of helping others: small and seemingly simple things can make a big difference.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless

“He knew what it might mean for him. But it wasn’t about him. It was about the people he loved.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless

“I smiled weakly and looked back at the mouth of the dark canyon. It grinned back at me as if to say, “Yeah, so I ate your friends. You wanna die, too?”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless

“It is this light that gives us the inner strength to tear down our selfish walls, climb our own Mount Olympus, or plunge into the dark to offer light to others.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless

“There is something inside of us—perhaps an ember from that first Promethean fire—that encourages us to defy gravity and reach for the heavens. Indeed, this light comforts us in the midst of death and despair and entreats us to end the cold wars within our hearts. It is this same light that gives us the strength to move forward and step into the greater light of day.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless

“in order to live a full and abundant life, we must receive light and share it with others.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless

“Greater love hath no man than this,” said Jesus, “that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless

“The darkened history of our world is made hopeful by the starlight of individuals who have lived their lives as lights for others.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless

“It is the story of sacrificing one’s own life—one’s own needs—to bring light and life to others. It is the story of a painful sacrifice, followed by glorious growth.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless

“One of the earliest echoes of this story was heard in ancient Greece. According to their mythology, there was a Titan—a Greek god—by the name of Prometheus. It is said that Prometheus not only created humans but also saved them.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless

“In its essence, light is whatever encourages us to reach higher. Light can overcome winter, chase away darkness, and help us to see things more clearly. There is no progression without light.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless

“Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness
will we discover the infinite power of our light.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless

“I believe that God makes us appear different so we can be surprised by joy when we discover that we are actually long-lost family.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless

“What other people—what other added moments of life—had I denied myself because I decided to build a wall?”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless

“The more we grow to love people, the more we understand that our lives are the most beautiful when they are filled with people.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless

“I do know that the only thing that matters is that you learn to love people.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless

“Within every person is a seed of greatness.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless