Quotes About Selflessness

Brag less, create more. Distract less, learn more. Gossip less, produce more. Take less, give more. Hate less, love more.

Elimina la falsedad, el miedo y la arrogancia que provienen del ego.

I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.

Sense of sacrifice is good but only if you're sacrificing your own life; once you sacrifice another's life you've overstepped the mark.

We reach beauty through setting our interests aside and letting the world dawn on us. There are many ways of doing this, but art is undeniably the most important, since it presents us with the image of human life – our own life and all that life means to us – and asks us to look on it directly, not for what we can take from it but for what we can give to it. Through beauty art cleans the world of our self-obsession.

love of fame, the ruling passion of the noblest minds, which would prompt a man to plan and undertake extensive and arduous enterprises for the public benefit." Ambition was reckless if inspired by purely selfish motives but laudable if guided by great principles.

Wanting to dedicate himself to philanthropy

I made a fist and held it out. It didn't look like much—not like a fist anyone would count on for protection. If war came seeking a person I loved, that undernourished fist was not going to be enough. I would have to put my whole body in the way

I always try to turn the spotlight on the other person. Truly confident people often do this. They know they grow more by listening than talking.

Atunci când consecinÈ›ele de nesuportat ale sindromului îngrijitorului, acelea de a te simÈ›i invizibil, golit, neiubit È™i abandonat, duc la recunoaÈ™terea neputinÈ›ei în faÈ›a dependenÈ›ei de a-i mulÈ›umi pe alÈ›ii, primul pas înspre recuperare a fost deja f?cut.

The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours

It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things are most worth doing,we do for others.

If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil! If you give your cloak to him who steals your coat, how long will it be, before your shirt and trousers will go also?

And she wanted so much to make him happy that she forgot how to make herself happy" "That is not happiness. That is kind of murder, yeah?

Sam had a skill that often let him take what he needed. But you couldn't do that with love. It had to be given. Shared.

being a good and reliable friend was pretty heroic when it came down to it.

Single women can choose to serve others as well; we don't have to be married before we can give to others.

He's thought he was willing to do anything in order to get what he wanted, what was right for his kind. He'd been certain any sacrifice was possible. He'd been wrong.

If he were older and stronger, would he have given water to those men? Or would he, like most of the group, have kept his water for himself?

Strength is given us for service, not to convey status (see Romans 15:2). I wonder how much trouble would be averted in the world at large if everyone knew and adhered to this principle. What if we knew that our strength was to serve the weak, fearful, or timid? It would all be good!

The point is that love gives even when it is not returned. Once Love has chosen, He does not change His mind.

The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"

Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor and less about your own.