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Quotes About Selflessness

The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.
~ Edith Stein
In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love.
~ Cesar Chavez
If you need encouragement, give it. If you need love, give it.Whatever you need, give it away.
~ Adrian Rogers
Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.
~ Bob Goff
He said "Love...as I have loved you." We cannot love too much.
~ Amy Carmichael
All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others.
~ Milarepa
Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.
~ Mother Teresa
Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love
~ Chiara Lubich
Meditate like Christ...He lost himself in love.
~ Neem Karoli Baba
Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.
~ Mother Teresa
It's not the love you make. It's the love you give.
~ Nikola Tesla
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
~ Francis of Assisi
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.
~ Walt Whitman
You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Real love will take you far beyond yourself;and therefore real love will devastate you.
~ Ken Wilber
Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else's heart.
~ Marlene Dietrich
The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.
~ John of the Cross
Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.
~ Meher Baba
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Love is giving everything and taking nothing
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you get back a thousand fold.
~ Sivananda
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
~ Sigmund Freud