Quotes About Selflessness

He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord - including darkness, dryness, flatness - and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him." -

The most enduring heroes are people who don't try to be.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn't one.

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 per cent of everything you do is for yourself And there isn't one.

By lifting Widget up, Law had given her the power to help others. They were daisy-chained together; acts of goodwill looped back around. Law had saved Windwolf. He had protected her without even knowing how much he owed her. Tinker saved the tengu, and they in turn protected Usagi and her children. Around and around, kindness being paid forward until it returned. It was what Pittsburgh needed. What Elfhome needed; people helping one another without concern of clan or race or species.

I think we must be careful about too easily accepting, or being too easily grateful for, sacrifices made by others, especially if we have made none ourselves.

betrayal—it is only as you give up your rights to vindicate yourself, it is only in laying down the injustices, it is only in forgiving those who have wronged you—that you lay down your life. And as you lay down

If everyone waited to do something good until they had purely unselfish motivations, no good would ever get done in the world. The point is to do it anyway.

There isn't a lot a mother won't do for her child, Kyra. It's sort of hardwired into our DNA.

Les gens qui aiment retirer la nourriture des lèvres des autres ne veulent jamais nourrir les gens par la suite. Il en est de même pour ceux qui veulent que les autres abandonnent leurs rêves pour leur plaire ou répondre à leurs besoins, ils n'ont jamais de meilleur rêve à offrir.

People who like to remove food from other people's lips never want to feed the people afterwards. It's the same for those who want other people to give up on their dreams to please them or fit their needs, they never have a better dream to offer.

Even if opportunities don't come to you because of the selfishness of others, don't give up on your ability.

The doctor saves many lives but his own."

The psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced six-cent-mihaly) has done more than anyone else to study this state of effortless attending, and the name he proposed for it, flow, has become part of the language. People who experience flow describe it as "a state of effortless concentration so deep that they lose their sense of time, of themselves, of their problems

There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.

So next time your selflessness is praised in front of others, beware: making sacrifices for others makes it easier for them to sacrifice you.

Non bisogna mai esagerare il male che si può fare agli altri. Meglio lasciare a loro questo piacere.

When we live to glorify God and not ourselves, we are answering the purpose for which God made us and redeemed us. It is in this kind of life alone that true and lasting joy, satisfaction, contentment, and pleasure are found. HOW

El verdadero sabio gobierna a las personas «cuidando de ellas y alimentándolas, pero sin reclamarlas para sí», y elimina los motivos de disputa en vez de castigar las consecuencias:

Water benefits all living things without taking credit for doing so. Indeed, after bestowing its life-giving benefits to field and stream, man and beast, water is perfectly content to puddle up and rest in the lowest, darkest places on earth. It falls as rain from the heavens and, when its work is done, it flows down into the deepest recesses of the earth. p7

By the way, all of these benefits come from people who can't give you anything for your time but love and need. As I tell so many people, "Working in a hospice pays off. It may not pay off here in the mortal world, but in the spiritual sense, the retirement program is out of this world.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

El mayor regalo que se le puede hacer a Cristo es dar, no recibir».