Quotes About Selflessness

When you're a writer, there is a selflessness that has to happen; you have to have equity with how you treat each of the characters and the information you bring into the room.

I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.

My blessing, and also my advice. Spend what you have, give it away, Dirk. All, all away. The only chance to replenish yourself is to use up what you are given. It's called redemption in some circles.

Atheists' anger doesn't prove that we're selfish, or joyless, or miserable. It shows that we have compassion, and a sense of justice. We're angry because we see terrible harm all around us, and we feel desperately motivated to stop it.

to other people than from receiving support yourself. I certainly get more satisfaction out of thinking about good deeds I've done for other people than I do from thinking about good deeds that others have done for me.

Concern for Others Loophole: We tell ourselves that we're acting out of consideration for others and making generous, unselfish decisions. Or we decide we must do something in order to fit into a social situation.

I remember talking to a friend whose parents had been very involved in the civil rights movement. "They always said," he told me, "that you have to do that kind of work for yourself. If you do it for other people, you end up wanting them to acknowledge it and to be grateful and to give you credit. If you do it for yourself, you don't expect other people to react in a particular way.

It's a very unsettling and interesting exercise to think about the people in my life and to imagine myself in a minor, supporting role. How do I fit into their fates? Am I helping?

Reluctantly, Kazuko accepts one of the tomatoes. "This is absurd. You have nothing and you're giving us food," she says. He stares hard at her: "The less I have, the happier I am.

It's said that if we can drop the bothersome appendages of egos and sugar lumps, we will begin to feel an immense caring for others, for otherness, for all kinds of suffering, and in doing so, we will be able to exchange ourselves for others. If we try, strange sympathies will fill us and the power of empathy will fuel us forward.

En plongeant dans la personnalité des autres, il oublia la sienne, ce qui est la seule manière peut-être de n'en pas souffrir.

No ho feia pas per ell, per bé que ell s'ho cregués així, ans per ella mateixa, per una expansió egoista.

Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.

Pl?cerea va trebui jerfit? folosului.

Sizi inciten her neyse, onu ba?kas?na yapmay?n. Size ac? veren bir ?eyle ba?kas?n? incitmeyin. Kendinize yap?lmas?n? istemedi?iniz ?eyleri ba?kas?na yapmay?n.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.   Ã¢â'¬â€Seneca

En el mundo hay dos tipos de personas y de organizaciones: los que comen y los que dan de comer. Los que comen quieren un trozo más grande del pastel; los que dan de comer quieren hacer un pastel más grande. Los que comen piensan que si ellos ganan, tú pierdes, y que si tú ganas, ellos pierden. Los que dan de comer creen que con un pastel más grande todo el mundo podría salir ganando.

Such was the code: Strive for victory, but never seem to be self-involved.

Getting rid of the concept of self is the work of all meditators, because suffering is born from this concept.

If there's no sacrifice, there's no love.

Women are brought up to think of others. [...] When I start to think of myself I feel sick.

Man's Christianity teaches sacrifice to save ourselves; Christ's Christianity teaches sacrifice to save others. Man's Christianity produces the fruitless selfishness of too much of our religion. Christ's Christianity produces the blessed unselfishness of lives that are poured out for others, as was His.

Servant leadership is about caring for others more than for ourselves. It is about compassion for everyone who serves the group. It enriches everyone, not just those at the top. Servant leadership requires us to sit and weep with those who weep within our organizations. It requires getting down and dirty when hard work has to be done. There is nothing in my organization that anyone does that I should not be willing to do myself if it promotes the good of us all.

If Philip and Adam end up facing consequences or making sacrifices, so be it. My son is alive and out there somewhere. Selfish or not, that trumps all.