Quotes About Selflessness

Giving the best to others are giving the best to us. The value of life is not based on how long we live. But, how much can we contribute to others in our society ?

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.

Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.

Neither your position in society, nor power, nor dignity, nor selfishness, nor even personal promotion should enslave you

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.

A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.

Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.

Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.

Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.

To minister means to love and care for others. It means to attend to their physical and spiritual needs. Put simply, it means to do what the Savior would do if He were here.

To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks. To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.

If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth.

An unselfish dream, goal, or service can help us to the height of spiritual living.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress.

A devotee has no agenda of his own. For him, the object of devotion is everything.

The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.