Quotes About Selflessness

The only way to retain love is to give it away.

If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.

True love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good.

Feel good about being someone who loves selflessly. I think someday you'll find someone who loves you the exact same way.

Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. Grace is being loved when you are unlovable.

A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.

Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.

Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness.

I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value: If the value is great enough, you do not care to exist without it.

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Don't let proud get to your head, always humble yourself.

As long as in love there is "you" and "me," love is not fully kindled.

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

Real love doesn't seek to acquire. It gives itself away. Its very nature is that of surrender, service, and generosity.

There is no love without sacrifices.

Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.

What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

Love is always freely given. Love cannot be demanded. We can request things of each other, but we must never demand anything. Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.