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Quotes About Selflessness

Live your life not to win golden medals but to win golden hearts.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
When you have a kid your life changes completely, it's not about you anymore.
~ Nacho Figueras
In my own life, I do not live like an effective altruist. An effective altruist would really disapprove of my life. I don't give enough to charity and I still have both my kidneys.
~ Paul Bloom
The only way to reach the mountain peaks of life is to forget about self and help other people reach greater heights.
~ Zig Ziglar
You're ever song I have ever sung. I'll never let anything hurt you again. For the first time in my life, my dreams aren't about me. They're about you." -Jax
~ Abbi Glines
There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.
~ Alice Hegan Rice
The value of a life is determined by what we give away.
~ Andy Stanley
Life is not about giving up or giving in. Life is about giving.
~ Anthony D. Williams
I do not look upon my life as a sacrifice at all.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Just be loving. You also have to recognize that you need to take the focus off yourself and put it on your children to give them a proper start in life.
~ Benjamin Bratt
My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.
~ Cheryl Strayed
The sweetest life is to be ever making sacrifices for Christ; the hardest life a man can lead on earth, the most full of misery, is to be always doing his own will and seeking to please himself.
~ EDWARD HENRY BICKERSTETH
Here lies a very successful man, who spontaneously gave up his profession to devote himself to endangered species. He did not take much care of himself so he killed himself. However, what he neglected to consider was that he himself was an endangered species as well: The Handsome American. (Wilder)
~ Edward Z. Epstein
The Degree of Loving is Measured by the Degree of Giving
~ Edwin Louis Cole
A chicken benefits not from her eggs; the honeybees cannot enjoy their honey; similarly, a writer earns nothing from its writing; and visionary one receives not a profit from its vision. However, the dominant figures stay to contribute little support for the continuation of a selfish and monopolized system.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
A chicken benefits not from her eggs; the honeybees cannot enjoy their honey; similarly, a writer earns nothing from its writing; and visionary one receives not profit from its vision. However, the dominant figures stay to contribute a little support for the continuation of such a selfish and monopolized system.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
After jumping out of your ego, you liberate your own, and you see the way towards the values of others.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Learn to admire others. It is the first step to overcome your ego.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Living for others is a charity of life; it is a path of sacred ones.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
One has to get down in the muddy place for helping a falling person in the mud; it reflects an incredible devotion way and feeling that shower humanity with fragrance and dress the human with flowers.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Sincerity neither carries personal interests nor supports that.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Surrender your ego to enjoy peace of mind and the beauty of equality and harmony.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
True love carries sacrifices; it demands not the demands.
~ Ehsan Sehgal