Quotes About Selflessness

really true that while we grow physically by what we get, we grow spiritually by what we give. Ever since I became a mother, I've

It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and striving to be all that we were intended to be. It takes us beyond self-centeredness and enables us to resist the combined forces of indifference and meaninglessness. It awakens us to a sense of responsibility for those most in need of our society as well as for that world that future generations will inherit.

Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.

Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." Erich Fromm

Have you found out the meaning of your life? Yes. I've finally figured it out. It's to find something more important to me than my own life. Finding something more important to us than our own lives is why we are all born. We're all given with one life inside us. And God wants us to use that life to set out on lifelong journey to find something that is more important to us. You too are someone more important to me than my own life.

Have you found out the meaning of your life?' 'Yes. I've finally figured it out. It's to find something more important to me than my own life. Finding something more important to us than our own lives is why we are all born. We're all given with one life inside us. And God wants us to use that life to set out on lifelong journey to find something that is more important to us than ourselves

Investigation helps us to go beyond the surface of things to discover the underlying laws of the universe and the three characteristics that the Buddha described as dukkha, anicca, and anatta, the Pali words for "unsatisfactoriness," "impermanence," and "selflessness.

My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.

Love can be its own reward.

Concentrate on being useful, rather than how do I feel today, otherwise the world is not going to change.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

When you spend serious time and effort focused on transcendental things, it puts your little world into proper context and takes the focus off yourself. Most of our days, I am thinking me, me, me. It's like watching the same dreary television show, over and over, all day long. It's so boring. Faith forces me into the cosmos, to consider the source of truth, the origin of life, and the good of others. This focus brings refreshment and relief. A

Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.

Modesty is my best quality.

I have no qualms sharing my stuff with others. Whether it is a bed or any other stuff.

Point guard is like the quarterback. It's an IQ-judgment position. The great ones are not about themselves. They're about the others.

In Queen Mary's, which was an all-girls' college, I learned discipline, hard work and to be competitive. But at Madras Film Institute, I learned about the world, being free and knowledgeable, and thinking beyond oneself.

There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.

It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself.

My mom quit her whole life and came to live with me in California.

The day I feel like I can't contribute to the team's success, that's the day I am going to call it quits.

I came out with a few plaudits, and I don't really enjoy that because I am a team player. I don't shout about myself, and I've always been team-orientated, so maybe that is why I have always slipped under the radar throughout my career.

As much as you want to improve or help the team, as a centre-back your job is to go under the radar and keep the ball out of the net. If you do that and let the strikers get all the adulation and the headlines, then you're probably doing your job.