Quotes About Selflessness

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me.

One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves

Practice radical humility. He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated...

There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

See how the masses of men worry themselves into nameless graves, while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

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If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the hero, namely, the will to carry their life in their hand, and stake it at any instant for their principle, but who have gone one step beyond the hero, and will not seek another man's life.

Ram asks Hanuman, "Who are you, Hanuman?" Hanuman answers, "When I don't know who I am, I serve you. When I know who I am, I am you.

Gurdjieff used to say, "If you can serve a cup of tea properly, you can do anything." That is, if you are able to perform any act in a true karma-yogic fashion, it's because you're acting from a place where you're free of attachments and not busy being the actor—and being in that place will shape every act you do.

Drugs had changed me from a selfish, striving academic in search of recognition and power to someone who was aware of the soul. Psychedelics had introduced me to compassion, to recognizing and feeling love for others. Harvard seemed trivial by comparison.

Shouldn't we just admit the obvious--that the New Testament call to discipleship, compassion, and giving leaves no room for the way many of us are thinking and living? Is it time to get beyond the theoretical stance of 'I'd be willing to give up anything if God asked me to,' and start actually giving up things in order to do what He's commanded us?

Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean ridding ourselves of most of our possessions. But for all of us it should mean dedicating everything we retain to further the kingdom. (For true disciples, however, it cannot mean hoarding or using kingdom assets self-indulgently.)

You can't take it with you— but you can send it on ahead.

Giving sacrificially also means giving the best. If we have two blankets and someone needs one of them, sacrificial giving hands over the better of the two. Sadly, much of our "giving" is merely discarding. Donating secondhand goods to church rummage sales

You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion" (2 Corinthians 9:11).

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted" (Matthew 23:12).

It's possible for someone to act sacrificially and selflessly in the best interests of others while enjoying the fruit: feeling good about having done well and receiving God's approval and reward.

The important thing to bear in mind is that you must face your willingness to die to yourself before you choose to walk down the aisle. Is this person the one for whom you are willing to die daily? Is this person to whom you say, "I do" also the one for whom you are willing to say, "No, I don't" to everybody else? Be assured that marriage will cost you everything.

Think long and hard whether you have reached that mature stage of selflessness for this one you think you love so much. The love you enjoy will be the best thing that ever happened to you, but it will cost you your independence.... The responsibility of marriage and family demands time, and when we cheat on that, we rob ourselves of the investment returns.

The greater the involvement in another's life, the greater is the demand for sacrifice.