Quotes About Selflessness

Pero nadie puede decir: «Yo me sacrifico», sin sentir amargura.

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

Le triomphe de l'art est de conduire à autre chose que soi.

May I disappear in order that those things that I see may become perfect in their beauty from the very fact that they are no longer things that I see.

Humility consists in knowing that in what we call 'I' there is no source of energy by which we can rise. Everything, without exception, that is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift, but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.

God alone is capable of loving God. We can only consent to give up our own feelings so as to allow free passage in our soul for this love. That is the meaning of denying oneself. We are created for this consent, and for this alone.

But a better remedy is indifference to ourselves, and being happy because the good is good, although we are far from it and may even suppose that we are destined to remain separated from it forever.

Once we have understood we are nothing, the object of all our efforts is to become nothing. It is for this that we suffer with resignation, it is for this that we act, it is for this that we pray.

May I disappear in order that those things that I see may become perfect in their beauty from the very fact that they are no longer things I see.

Obedience is the only pure motive, the only one which does not in the slightest degree seek a reward for the action, but leaves all care of reward to the Father who is in secret and who sees in secret.

God denied himself for our sakes in order to give us the possibility of denying ourselves for him. This response, this echo, which it is in our power to refuse, is the only possible justification for the folly of love of the creative act.

An inability to encourage someone else is usually rooted in an absorption with self that is blind to the needs or gifts of others, or a pride that cannot bring itself to praise God's grace in them.

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

Waitressing: [...] She was a very old soul, which meant that her life was driven by love and not ego. [...] She, on a soul level, had decided to commit a huge part of her life to serving people, to being kind and caring and wouldn't seek a lot of attention for it. The work was its own reward.

I figure when I die, I can't take anything with me. So why not give?

And anyway, I continue, lifting my head nobly, who-ever it was, whether I knew them or not, if I could help them in some way, I would. I mean, if you can help, you have to help. Don't you think?

Which would you choose if you could: pleasure for yourself despite your friends or a share in their grief?

Io ho desiderato, fino alla disperazione, di poter essere tutto per lei, fino al giorno in cui ho appreso, nel dolore, che è infinitamente più nobile non essere, per lei, assolutamente niente.

The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.

Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.

After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.

A lot of dreams don't come true in life. If you can make somebody's dream come true, you should.

Live your life for anyone but yourself

The only selfish life is a timid one.