Quotes About Selflessness

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life.

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

Nothing is going to make you happier in your life than giving

Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

Right before I was escorted to the jail, Fawn waved bye bye to me. I smiled. My empty, pointless life for hers. Not bad.

Life gives to the give and takes from the taker.

I could see that the Wasichus did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation's hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. They had forgotten that the earth was their mother.10 This

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

You are a midwife, assisting at someone else's birth. Do good without show or fuss. Facilitate what is happening rather than what you think ought to be happening. If you must take the lead, lead so that the mother is helped, yet still free and in charge. When the baby is born, the mother will rightly say, "We did it ourselves!

A Good Group A good group is better than a spectacular group. When leaders become superstars, the teacher outshines the teaching. Very few superstars are down-to-earth. Fame breeds fame, and before long they get carried away with themselves. Then they fly off center and crash. The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor. The leader does not take all the credit for what happens and has no need for fame. A moderate ego demonstrates wisdom.

We who are white men can't change who we are. But we could do worse than to follow what I took that summer as his example: to be aware of and curious about the world around you, to give what you have with neither apology nor self-congratulation. When praise comes to see you, get out on the fire escape. When it's someone else's time to talk, listen. Don't turn your house into a museum. When your work is done, get out of the way.

You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving.

The best that could be left behind by any man: children who had been brought up to behave responsibly and to believe in something beyond their own self gratification. (The Americans

La gente se sacrifica sin cesar para que otros puedan vivir. Los soldados en combate. Los bomberos en un edificio en llamas. Los policías en las calles de una ciudad. ¿Es ti vida tan feliz, tan productiva y tan importante para que asumamos automáticamente que es más valiosa que lo que podría costar?

La gente se sacrifica sin cesar para que otros puedan vivir. Los soldados en combate. Los bomberos en un edificio en llamas. Los policías en las calles de una ciudad. ¿Es tú vida tan feliz, tan productiva y tan importante para que asumamos automáticamente que es más valiosa que lo que podría costar?

The only care That I shall share Shall be the care of others, And on the road I'll halve the load Of overburdened brothers. I rather guess It's selfishness That drives me to such actions, For in this plan I find I can Forget my own distractions.

There are only two times in this world when I am happy and selfless and pure," he said. "One is when I jack off on paper and the other when I empty all the fretfulness of desire on a young male body.

Who really needs to be commanded to love? Anyone who has loved anything in life, be it another person, an animal, a place in nature, a work of art—whatever—knows that love comes by its own power. It cannot and need not be commanded.

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

Maturity beings to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

I remember Robyn saying once 'Talking about yourself can be selfish or generous'. When I asked what she meant, she said: 'If you never talk about yourself, about your problems and stuff, that's selfish, because you're not giving your friends a chance to help you. And if you talk about yourself all the time, you're selfish and boring.

Als je nooit over jezelf praat, over wat je dwarszit en zo, dan is dat egoïstisch, omdat je je vrienden geen kans geeft om te helpen.

Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.