Quotes About Selflessness

Tiger Lily, you're a fool." he said, and kissed her forehead. And despite his size, and the fact that a boy like him was not built to shoulder much of anything, he shouldered her weight, and carried her home.

Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

Sometimes giving up something shows more love than trying to hold onto it.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who walk into a room and say 'Here I am' and those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are.

You gotta get outside and exercise, you gotta take your pills, and you gotta take care of other people." No bullshit and no secrets

This act of generosity—Cecelia and Emeline had nothing to gain from him, personally—still struck him as extraordinary.

Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.

I do not say anything from jealousy.

Queste feste sono una fatica terribile, se le godono solo i giovani. In quanto a noi, alla nostra età, non c'è più niente che possa portarci consolazione. Servire, servire fino alla morte, ecco quanto ci rimane. E tutto quanto facciamo, è per gli altri.

And he did. Billy knew that, even if he did not love Greg, even if he had other guys, and other plans for the long term, he would still do this thing. He would help Greg in his last months, or years. And he might resent it but he would not regret it: because this was the thing that was given him to do.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. ROMANS 12:10

Love is a choice — a decision we make to put the well-being of the other person before our own. And forgiveness is also a decision.

Jesus' example teaches a powerful lesson. He demonstrates that one way to overcome emotional pain is to focus on the needs of others — to reach out and help someone else who may also be suffering.

If it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is contributing to the needs of others, let him give generously; if it is leadership, let him govern diligently; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully. ROMANS 12:8

I see that I must give what I most need.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others.

Before you pity yourself, take a great deal closer look at others, and then decide with who you would or could change places and what sacrifice of your nature you would be prepared to make in order to do so.

Hazel should have done something—left a note, pretended she was going to go visit Jack's aunt Bernice. Something. She was so busy thinking about the one she needed to rescue she didn't think at all about the one she was leaving behind. She was supposed to take care of her mother, too. She was not supposed to be sipping honey tea with people who are just like the parents you think you are supposed to have. Her mother was what she had.