Quotes About Selflessness

You get one life. And if you make the mistake of choosing a profession that doesn't enrich anybody but you, you wont even live that one

Life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom.

The translucent life is very much about overflowing with a gift to the world, rather than being here to consume or to get something for yourself.

Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness.

When you make Service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning.

Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive.

Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ."

Life is not a gift to be received, but rather, infinite gifts that we can give.

Ignore the negativity in your life. Right now I'm taking bullets for other people and sometimes in life that's where courage comes from.

Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.

Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.

The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice.

What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always heroic and their acts aren't always devoid of selfishness.

We can also lose our way if we misunderstand selflessness or emptiness. When we confuse relative reality with ultimate reality, or misinterpret ultimate reality as something that destroys the conventional world, then we fall into the trap of the nihilists who see no meaning or purpose in life. Then our view of emptiness is inspired by sadness and depression, and it becomes just another tool to shut everything down. Instead of looking at the world with joy, we see it as hopeless.

Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?

Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it's the very last piece, but you let him have it.

They were paragons of self-sacrificing womanhood. Like, 'I'm starving to death! Here, eat my only bakery bun!' 'I can't walk, I'm paralyzed, but still I see the bright side of life, happy happy!' A Little Princess and Pollyanna, let me tell you, they are selling you a pack of ugly lies.

Nothing is ever really yours until you share it.

Petty unselfishness," she repeated. "I had got an idea that every one here spent their lives in making little sacrifices for objects they didn't care for, to please people they didn't love; that they never learnt to be sincere—and, what's as bad, never learnt how to enjoy themselves.

Now, what is the good of driblets? To go through life having done one thing — to have raised one person from the abyss; not these puny gifts of shillings and blankets — making the grey more grey. No doubt people will think me extraordinary.

These are times, moreover, when we shall learn again to make those pleas with which the Lord's Prayer begins: Hallowed be thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done. By these we learn to forget ourselves and our personal condition and to hold them as of little account. How are we to remain steadfast so long as we remain so important to ourselves? - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus] is the event of the unity of life and death for the sake of life. Thus he is the event of a still greater selflessness in the midst of such great selfrelatedness. That is how he is God.

One can, in fact, do nothing at all for love, although one can do everything out of love.