Quotes About Selflessness

Eventually, but I chose her for you. I knew what you liked and I shopped with an eye for keeping you, not for satisfying myself, and it worked. It worked better than I could have dreamed. I should have realized that I had set myself up for the two people I loved most in the world to love each other more than they loved me.' Jean-Claude

It seems the more of a parent you are, the less you are of anything else.

If you want to be loved, don't take on responsibility.

If you want to be loved, don't take on responsibility.

A hero is, in the words of Joseph Campbell, "someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."2

This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values....

If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.

One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')

How sad it is when someone comes to you looking for Jesus and all they see is you.

Writing jokes for others is like having babies for someone else. It's sad. Like the woman who gives up her baby but needs to be close so she secretly becomes the maid in the household.

But it must be inconvenient to not be able to remember your name. I'll give you my last name, if you want.

I come from a place where everyone has great power, by your standards, and they steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement ... anywhere ... ever.

If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Do every day a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face.

Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

To LOVE without condition, to SMILE without reason, and to SERVE without end... THIS is achievement

Service brings merit, merit allows you to go deeper in meditation, meditation brings back your smile.

To be rich is to give a smile with no expectation of return.

Almost every day brings opportunities to perform unselfish acts for others. Such acts are unlimited and can be as simple as a kind word, a helping hand, or a gracious smile.

Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad.

You could go outside today and have a glum face, or you could put a smile on your face and go out into the world, even though you don't feel like it - that's selfless giving!

If you are unhappy - be that way in your bedroom - but whenever you come out into the world, in real selfless giving we push all of that aside and we smile, love and give to others.

To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self-interest as the driving force of society.