Quotes About Selflessness

Men often do their best work blind, for some one else's sake.

Take anything and everything seriously, except yourselves.

Every person needs to be needed, but being needed takes away from thoughts of yourself. This may sound selfish to your ears, but I do not think it is so. I know I am unable to be needed like others are. I know that my inner world would be jealous.

Our whole Christian life is a dying to selfishness – wasn't it Monsignor Knox who said the cross was "I" crossed out?

Humility has everything to do with love.

One of her vows was to save all beings, which basically means that she agreed not to become enlightened until all the other beings in this world get enlightened first.

In Zen we have a story. If your left hand gets a painful splinter, what does your right hand do? Does your right hand say, "Oh, that's too bad, but it's not my problem"? No, of course not. The right hand pulls the splinter out. This is interconnectedness.

By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. —1 John 3:16

With respect to love we speak continually about perfection and the perfect person. With respect to love Christianity also speaks continually about perfection and the perfect person. Alas, but we men talk about finding the perfect person in order to love him. Christianity speaks about being the perfect person who limitlessly loves the person he sees.

Let us speak of this in purely human terms. Oh! how pitiable a person who has never felt the loving urge to sacrifice everything for love, who has therefore been unable to do so!

The person who lives in the ethical sphere lives intentionally, intensively. Such a person possesses character and conviction, and is thus willing to sacrifice himself for something greater than oneself.

Is this the same teaching, when Christ says to the rich young man, Sell all that thou hast, and give it to the poor; and when the priest says, Sell all that thou hast and...give it to me?

loved. For he who loved himself became great by himself, and he who loved other men became great by his selfless devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all.

Is this the same teaching, when Christ says to the rich young man, Sell all that thou hast, and give it to the poor; and when the pastor says, Sell all that thou hast and – give it to me?

Abraham was greater than all, great by reason of his power whose strength is impotence, great by reason of his wisdom whose secret is foolishness, great by reason of his hope whose form is madness, great by reason of the love which is hatred of oneself.

love is all; it gives all and it takes all.

la fe resulta ser por un lado la expresión más alta del egoísmo (lleva a cabo lo terrible por amor a sí mismo), y por otro, la más absoluta expresión de la entrega, pues lleva a cabo la acción por amor a Dios. La fe nunca puede mediar en lo general; de hacerlo quedaría anulada. La fe consiste en esa paradoja, y el Particular no logrará nunca que otro le comprenda.

I will learn that the deepest meaning of love is renunciation, giving up one's own dream to fulfill the dream of the beloved.

there seems to be no doubt that love and compassion are good, in that they connect us more deeply to others.30 Given this situation, we can see that one could desire to become more loving and compassionate for purely selfish reasons.

the truth is that most people are simply too distracted by their thoughts to have the selflessness of consciousness pointed out directly.

Always think of passing the ball before shooting it.

In Gym, the kids on my team learned not to pass me the ball and to step quickly in front of me if the other team tried to take advantage of my weakness. I happily stayed out of their way.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.