Quotes About Selflessness

Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, 'What does it matter.'

Love is not about getting - but giving.

Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.

Charity is love; not all love is charity.

There is no place for selfishness-and no place for fear! Do not be afraid, then, when love makes demands. Do not be afraid when love requires sacrifice

All I could think of was what a privilege it was to give my life away for love's sake.

We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors.

They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

To what will love not stoop!

When we give from a place of love, rather than from a place of expectation, more usually comes back to us than we could ever have imagined.

One way to show someone you love them is to simply go out of your way for them. It's the gift of inconvenience.

Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.

I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.

Love doesn't just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it... Simply put: Love does!

True love requires sacrifice.

Giving that is not motivated by love is worth nothing.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

If the person who says they love you is unwilling to sacrifice for you it ain't love.

The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence.