Quotes About Selflessness

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

I know how hard it is to live your life with your wounds exposed to heal other people

Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute - this is the only way of human life.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that's really the essence of the Christian faith.

Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic.

Better an unsung HERO than the source of envy.

Selfishness is the absence of selflessness

Some people don't deserve your time and attention. Love them anyway.

Giving is the gateway to heaven.

France, stop throwing awards at me! I have so many already, give them to people who need them.

There is only one way to be happy in this worldly life. Relinquish 'my' and go after [help to] people.

In all animals, egoism is in a seed-form. It bears effect as a tree in the human life form! If the egoism is destroyed, 'one' becomes the 'Absolute Supreme Self'[parmatma]!

Turn back to humanity – to the world – to love! Become gardeners – whatever you want! – become nothing! – and the whole of space will be free for you.

It will be a great day in this world when nobody wants anything because everyone has given and there is nothing left to take.

Learn to give for free because this is the best way to serve humanity.

Never look down unless you're helping them up.

Life starts when you live for someones other than you, and ends when you stop living in others' hearts! Birth & death are simply incidental.

At the end, I realise I was the only who always walked on the people, for nothing but betterment, and I got no regrets.

The greatest dividends in life are those that we give away.

Life demands that we live to care for others instead of living to care for self

The power of giving is beyond measure.