Quotes About Selflessness

There are two kinds of victory in this world,' said the storyteller-sage, 'Vijaya and Jaya. Vijaya is material victory, where there is a loser. Jaya is spiritual victory, where there are no losers. In

Arjuna, he who does not hate anyone, is friendly and compassionate always, is not possessive and self-indulgent, stable in pleasure and pain, forgiving, contained, controlled and firm in his love for me, in heart and head, is much loved by me.—Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 12, verses 13 and 14 (paraphrased).

Failure to see the other stopped the mind from expanding. It started contracting, crumpling and getting knotted. It became all about me and mine, not you and yours. Limitless Brahmana thus became the limited Brahma.

Grace—gifts given without being earned and with no expectation of return—

How do you know you're in love?" I asked her. "Because if it's determined by how willing you are to give up everything for the other person, I think it's a flawed system.

It's amazing what you'll do for your child, isn't it?

You're supposed to help people, even if it's hard to do. Especially if it's hard to do.

I am a member of my Nation's Chosen Soldiery. I serve quietly, not seeking recognition or accolades. My goal is to succeed in my mission—and live to succeed again.

To be fully human has little to do with always being the centre of attention, getting your way and having all your ambitions met. To be fully human is to be like Christ, to 'count others better than yourselves' (Phil 2:13)...It takes rare strength to treat others as more important than yourself.

I would also urge leaders to remain humble. If you don't worry about who gets the credit, you get a lot more done.

Mais je n'ai jamais su être égoïste longtemps – peut-être parce que je n'ai rien à défendre. J'ai

"If any want to become my followers," Jesus says. Following him is not something that is self-evident, even among the disciples. No one can be forced, no one can be expected to follow him. ... "If any want to follow me, they must deny themselves and take up their cross."

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

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.

Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.

Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself. It wants to gain, to capture by every means; it uses force. It desires to be irresistible, to rule.

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in need. The clergy must live solely on the free-will offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling. The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

But it is part of the discipline of humility that we must not spare our hand where it can perform a service and that we do not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it it to be arranged by God.

The church is church only when it is there for others.

Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake.

Genuine love is always self-forgetful in the true sense of the word.

To follow Jesus means self-renunciation and absolute adherence to him, and therefore a will dominated by lust can never be allowed to do what it likes.