Quotes About Selflessness

Group selection may or may not be common among other animals, but it happens whenever individuals find ways to suppress selfishness and work as a team, in competition with other teams.

It's the friendships and group activities, carried out within a moral matrix that emphasizes selflessness. That's what brings out the best in people.

It was harder to let yourself sink if someone else needed you to be their rock.

It's only when you don't want nothing from a body that you can see who they are," Polly had said. "It's strange, but when you don't want nothing, seems like you can give everything you got.

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.

Greatness is humility.

Our contemporary consumer is constructed in the first-person singular: I want, I need, I must have. There are many things we can achieve in the first-person singular but one we cannot, namely, sim?a – because sim?a is the joy we share, the joy we have only because we share.

I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.

There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.

You shouldn't have done it," I said. "You shouldn't have risked yourself." "Come off it," Lockwood said. "You know I'd die for you." He chuckled. "Heaven knows, I've come near it often enough. Scrambling down a crack in the ground is nothing…

Ia bukan demon , bukan penyihir. Ia lebih baik dari mereka. Keserakahan dan sikap mementingkan diri sendiri bukanlah sifatnya.

Would you know the secret of popularity? It is unconsciousness of self, altruistic interest, and inward kindliness, outwardly expressed in good manners.

Isn't it amazing how it's always the very people who insist other people be grateful for charity that get the most insulted when they're offered charity themselves? I've often noticed it.

I am married to the most amazing, generous and beautiful human being and it has been hard on him because from the outside if you look at it it's just all about me.

Si è perduto il senso del verbo donarsi

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.

Lo que nace del amor mo es objeto de transacciones

Lo que nace del amor no es objeto de transacciones

Por eso se tarda mucho tiempo en entenderse con la otra persona, y lo fundamental es asumir que el amor es un trabajo y necesita tiempo. El amor verdadero nos impulsa a intentar hacer feliz a la otra persona perdiendo un poco las preferencias personales.

El antónimo más exacto de la soberbia es la humildad, característica del hombre que reconoce sus defectos y es capaz de someter su razón, su voluntad y sus preferencias en bien de los demás; se interesa por los problemas y las circunstancias ajenas. La humildad es el mejor camino para la ascética personal y la espiritualidad trascendente.

Mereka yang pernah menolong orang-orang yang kesusahan, menginsafi bahwa memberi lebih baik daripada menerima.

Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.