Quotes About Selflessness

I just don't want you to worry about me, or think you've met me, or waste your time anymore.

Charlie, don't you get it? I can't feel that. It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

Podría morir por ti. Pero no voy a vivir para ti.

It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder. What if they need the arm or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things. Like take someone's hands when a slow song comes on for a change. Or be the one who asks someone for a date. Or tell people what you need. Or what you want.

I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love.

No puedes quedarte ahí sentado y poner las vidas de todos los demás por delante de la tuya y pensar que eso cuenta como amor.

Well, I thought a lot of things. But mostly, I thought that your being sad was much more important to me than Craig not being your boyfriend anymore. And if it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay. That's when I realized that I really loved you.

Moriría por usted. Pero no viviré para usted.

Es genial que puedas escuchar y ser un paño de lágrimas para alguien, pero ¿y si ese alguien no necesita un paño de lágrimas? ¿Y si necesita los brazos o algo así? No puedes quedarte ahí sentado y poner las vidas de todos los demás por delante de la tuya y pensar que eso cuenta como amor. Sencillamente, no puedes. Tienes que hacer cosas.

I would die for you. But I won't live for you.

I would die for you. But I won't live for you." Something

I would die for you. But I won't live for you." Something like that. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people.

I said, Well, I thought a lot of things, but mostly, I thought that your being sad was much more important to me than Craig not being your boyfriend anymore. And if it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay. That's when I realized that I truly loved you.

No puedes sólo sentarte y poner la vida de todos por encima de la tuya y pensar que eso cuenta como amor.

It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder. What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love.

You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

I wasn't happy about Craig and Sam breaking up. Not at all. I never once thought that it would mean Sam might start liking me. All I cared about was the fact that Sam got really hurt. And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.

Eu morreria por você. Mas não viveria por você.

It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder. What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

He suddenly lost concern for himself, and forgot to look at a menacing fate. He became not a man but a member. He felt that something of which he was a part—a regiment, an army, a cause, or a country—was in a crisis. He was welded into a common personality which was dominated by a single desire. For some moments he could not flee no more than a little finger can commit a revolution from a hand.

precious are saved only by sacrifice.

On the beach, men saw Father Lacy "go down to the water's edge and pull the dead, dying, and wounded from the water and put them in relatively protected positions. He didn't stop at that, but prayed for them and with them, gave comfort to the wounded and dying. A real man of God."22

Invoking the story of David, Davies implored his students to "imbibe and cherish a public spirit. Serve your generation. Live not for your selves, but the public. Be the servants of the Church; the servants of your Country; the servants of all." He exhorted them to "esteem yourselves" not by how much "more happy, honourable and important" you can become but by how much "more useful you are!

That's the bravest thing, I think: not to be brave for yourself but for a buddy when it gets you nothing and costs you everything.