Quotes About Selflessness

Love is giving and it has nothing to do with what you receive.

Not everyone is selfish in fashion. There are people who go to bed feeling good about themselves and then spread the love.

I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.

I don't think you tell someone you love them because you expect something. I think you tell them because you have something to give.

Day by day we are building for eternity ... Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.

The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving.

He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity

Whoever is not able to sacrifice, has no talent for love.

We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.

Lukewarm people love others but do not seek to love others as much as they love themselves.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Ours should be the love that asks not 'how little?' but, 'how much?' The love that delights to pour out everything upon the feet of our Beloved.

If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like that," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

There can be no greatness in things. Things cannot be great. The only greatness is unselfish love.

You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.

Of all the definitions of love that abound in our universe, a special favorite of mine is... "the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth."

If you love someone, you'd rather suffer the pain alone to spare them.

When we love people but don't make it about us, we're exchanging currency we can use for a while for currency we can use forever.

Nothing is too much trouble for Love.

Give thy love freely, do not count the cost: So beautiful a thing was never lost.

You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.