Quotes About Selflessness

Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.

The essence of love is to give continually, without expecting anything in return.

If you really aren't interested in serving others, you don't need to be in the restaurant business in the first place.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

Dünyada kendisi için hiçbir ?eyi olmayan insan?n bile ba?kalar?na yard?m edecek bir ?eyi vard?r.

Hem biz seninle hiç dans etmedik, de?il mi? - Hay?r etmedik - Ben zaten dans etmekten fazla zevk almam, bazen dans etti?im kimse ho?uma gider ve bu yüzden o s?k?nt?ya katlan?r?m. - Bu i? için ho?una gidece?imi tahmin etmem. - Ben de tahmin etmem. Ama olsun, arkada?l?kta fedakarl?k laz?md?r.

Kim olursan ol... Dünyada kendisi için hiçbir ?eyi olmayan bir insan?n bile ba?kalar?na yard?m edecek bir ?eyi vard?r... Hiç olmazsa bir tek sözü...

Sen sak?n kimseye asker olaca??m? söyleme.Yaln?z senden bir ricam var.Hemen radyocuya git?askere gidece?imi,bunun için taksitleri ödemeyece?imi ve askerde iken icraya verse bile para alamayaca??n? söyle.?sterse radyoyu geri als?n.Pe?in olarak verdi?imiz 30 liran?n on liras?n? da ba???layal?m.Anten de onlar?n olsun.Raz? olurlarsa ne ala.Olmazlarsa hava al?rlar.?stersen bu mektubu da göster.

Sen sak?n kimseye asker olaca??m? söyleme.Yaln?z senden bir ricam var.Hemen radyocuya git askere gidece?imi,bunun için taksitleri ödemeyece?imi ve askerde iken icraya verse bile para alamayaca??n? söyle.?sterse radyoyu geri als?n.Pe?in olarak verdi?imiz 30 liran?n on liras?n? da ba???layal?m.Anten de onlar?n olsun.Raz? olurlarsa ne ala.Olmazlarsa hava al?rlar.?stersen bu mektubu da göster.

Sen sevgiline ne verebilirsin sanki? Kalbini mi? Pekala, ikincisine? Gene mi o? Üçüncü ve dördüncüye de mi o?.. Atma be ada??m, kaç tane kalbin var senin?.. Hem biliyor musun, bu aptalca bir laft?r. Kalbin oldu?u yerde duruyor ve sen onu filana veya falana veriyorsun... Gö?sünü yararak o eti oradan ç?kar?r ve sevgilinin önüne atarsan o zaman kalbini vermi? olursun...

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

Once you are released from the fruit of action, the action will happen by itself. You don't have to stop working to be released from action. Simply, it will dissolve, melt and disappear. Once the expectation of the fruit of action is completely removed from your life, the action occurs by itself. You don't have to do anything about it.

Somehow in the name of divinity we have just lost our humanity. Don't talk about divinity, let your humanity overflow. When your humanity overflows, you will touch divinity, otherwise there is no way. It is simply empty talk; it doesn't get anybody anywhere.

When everybody was talking about going to heaven, Gautama the Buddha said, "You say everything is fine in heaven, so what will I do there? Let me go to hell and do something to help others, because anyway I cannot suffer.

Unfortunately, these days even so-called spiritual leaders are talking about self-esteem. "Self" and "esteem" are both a problem. Both are very limited entities; both are fragile; both will always be insecure. If you have no esteem, very good. If you have no self, fabulous!

No man has believed perfectly until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

It's when you give something that you have very little of, that you truly give.

Angosciarsi profondamente per le proprie disgrazie non è proprio di chi ama l'amico ma se stesso.

What else did you expect from helping someone out? Isn't it enough that you've done what your nature demands? You want a salary for it too? As if your eyes expected a reward for seeing, or your feet for walking. That's what they were made for.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

You've given aid and they've received it. And yet, like an idiot, you keep holding out for more: to be credited with a Good Deed, to be repaid in kind. Why?

Do not waste the remainder of thy life in thoughts about others, when thou dost not refer thy thoughts to some object of common utility.

As a horse when he has run, a dog when he has tracked the game, a bee when it has made the honey, so a man when he has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season.

Spend not the remnant of thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning other men, when it is not in relation to some common good, when by it thou art hindered from some other better work.