Quotes About Selflessness

There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.

Love is giving someone what they need most, when they deserve it least, at great personal cost to yourself.

For you to have real love, you need to be able to move past your self.

Love: You're not meant to wait for it. You're not meant to search for it. You're meant to generate it.

From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us.

When one loves, one does not calculate.

The love of Jesus is at once avid and generous. All that He has, all that He is, He gives; all that we are, all that we have, He takes.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

The real love is when you wish to give something and not to get.

"Wholeheartedly" means that we give our time, love, and energy unstintingly.

Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see.

Mercy requires that we learn to love others, to value their welfare more than our own!

In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.

Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one.

Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom; but all you do or omit should be for the honor of Love.

I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do.

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.

The opposite of love is indifference to the genuine needs of others.

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.

You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.