Quotes About Selflessness

Really, the cost didn't matter. No matter what she needed, even if it was the hospital, he'd find a way. He couldn't let her be sick. In less than twenty-four hours, all he really wanted was to see her smile like she had in that old picture Bobby had shown him. He

I know you'd protect me from anything. Even yourself.

They're first, that's all. I could love you more than life itself and they would still be first. It's a commitment a mother makes when she has children.

There's a great trick to escaping the pain of loss, and that is giving.

This isn't going to be an issue for long. In fact, much sooner than I like to think about, she'll be gone. She gave me her whole adult life, always putting me first. If I don't give her a few years of mine, the rest of my life won't matter a damn.

And now Patrick owed her. You hardly ever run into the kind of person who can really hold you in an open hand, never threatened or competitive, always loving you enough to want you to have everything you've imagined possible. Angie, only twenty-three, had that down. She was all selfless love. She was going to leave her mark and the world would be a better place for it.

One of the best ways to help the world is to never be a burden to it. Give money, give time, give love, and make sure you give yourself a little to spare so you're not the one in need.

I had rediscovered people in my past and come to terms with my feelings towards them. I had learnt what love was. That love wanted the best possible for those you cared for even if that excluded yourself. That before, I had wanted to possess people without loving them, and now I could love them and wish them the best without needing them.

It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring

If everyone, including himself, loved as they should love, they would love God more than they loved themselves and their passions.

Love is not a contractual exchange. Love is given with no expectation of return. Love does not keep a ledger.

Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself', declares Paul in one of his most frequently quoted sentences.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution, experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.

To put oneself in the position of others is an act of compassionate imagination freed from self-concern.

I wish to be, I can be, I have the right to be, I have the ability to be. I swear to myself that this will never be for my personal profit, but to help others. I wish to be, to help others. This is to be understood as a vow.

When for self, prayer and wish no good; only work good for self. But when wish with heart for other, can help.

We have to let everyone hear, the result does not belong to us.

Had he been sent to them like a kind of sun, pouring light into the world without asking for anything in return?

If I decide to make a career in the army, he said, I would never be rich, but I would live one of the most satisfying lives there was to be had. Then he warned me that satisfaction would come at a great cost to me and any family I might have. I should never expected to be thanked; a soldier, if he was going to be content, had to understand that no civilian, no government, sometimes not even the army itself, would recognize the true nature of the scarifies he made.

Ma se tu ami veramente qualcuno o qualcosa, dagli tutto quello che hai e anche tutto quello che sei, e fregatene del resto…

Il vero amore c'è quando esiste solo l'altro.»

Žinoma, galime toli nuklysti, bet juk negali r?pintis vien savimi pa?iu, taip visai sukvail?si. Galvodamas apie Kambodž? ir panašius dalykus, mažiau galvoji apie save pat?. Kai nepakankamai galvoji apie kitus, tada per daug galvoji apie save, <...>.

I always had a strong reluctance to hurt people, which is always the best way of hurting oneself.