Quotes About Selflessness

On the contrary, real love often occurs in a context in which the feeling of love is lacking, when we act lovingly despite the fact that we don't feel loving.

love ''as the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

There was nothing wrong with being understanding and sympathetic. It had been instilled in him all his life... Be a good Christian, son. Put others needs before your own. It had been so instilled in him, in fact, that once he was away from home, he'd had to learn it was also okay to speak about your own needs and say what you wanted, too. The trick was to somehow find a balance between the two.

You must have something in order to give it up.

There is no prayer greater than service.

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

If thou could'st empty all thyself of self Like to a shell dishabited Then might He find thee on the ocean shelf And say This is not dead and fill thee with Himself instead. But thou art all replete with very thou And hast such shrewd activity That when He comes He says This is enow Unto itself - 'twere better let it be It is so small and full there is no room for me.

But there's a kind of vanity in thinking you can nurse the world. There's a kind of vanity in goodness.

Compassion means to suffer with, but it doesn't mean to get lost in the suffering, so that it becomes exclusively one's own. I tend to do this, to replace the person for whom I am feeling compassion with myself.

But I wanted to do it for you," Mr. Murry said. "That's what every parent wants.

The Mother asks the sacrifice of love.

I'll ask you a riddle. What do you have the more of, the more of it you give away?

When Sporos Deepens," Proginoskes told Mr. Jenkins, "it means that he comes of age. It means that he grows up. The temptation for farandola or for man or for star is to stay an immature pleasure-seeker. When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe. A fara or a man or a star has his place in the universe, but nothing created is the center.

The temptation for farandola or for man or for star is to stay an immature pleasure-seeker. When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe

With all our human struggling for power we cannot heal ourselves, so God, with wondrous love, gives away power, gives away himself so that we may be healed.

is not an easy thing to refuse to be worshipped.

They hung there, the jackets she had bought for him, the shirts that she took to the Chinese laundry each week, the shoes that she polished until they shone. 'Oh nonsense, I'm doing my own,' she had said the first time he protested, and he hadn't protested again. Of course she had done too much for him. But if she had done any less it would have ended long ago. Long before now. She felt a chill. Why did she think it was ending now?

He has, Anges sees, done what any father would wish to do, to exchange his child's suffering for his own, to take his place, to offer himself up in his child's stead so that the boy might live.

Respect for others requires a complicated calculation in which one party agrees to moderate their own desires, to consider the longer-term consequences of their own behavior, to think about something other than the thing right in front of them.

Being seen as the best striker in Europe doesn't spur me on-it's helping my team to success. That's my only aim. I'm not a machine.

Desire to give and not always receive.

Life is not about receiving. It is about giving, knowing that someone might learn, understand or grow that little bit from the experience

A truly successful person is not one who achieves his highest ambitions, but one who enjoys helping others reach theirs.

CONFIDENCE is not showing off your VANITY, it's about to be HUMBLED and KIND to others what are you truly SKILLED and PROFESSIONAL about…