Quotes About Selflessness

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

Scientists have discovered that the small, brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain.

Obedient people never trust in themselves.

God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him and, by following his example, to make ourselves a gift of unbounded love.

It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.

The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.

Love does not fail for you when you are rejected, betrayed or apparently not Loved. Love fails for you when you reject, betray and do not love. Therefore .. Love.

Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.

To New York voters, Lehman's courage and honesty shone through. Herbert Lehman, the labor official George Meany wrote, "was the ideal public servant … He had none of the average politician's guile, the average diplomat's evasiveness, the average banker's greed, or the average statesman's aloofness." For Herbert Lehman, life was always about public service.

Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.

If you are nice, but you give of yourself with strings attached, the demand for reciprocity will send him several steps backward.

Sometimes people fall in love with those who do not return the same strength of feelings. It is as it is," he said with a quiet intensity. "What Igive, I give freely. You owe me nothing, not love, not friendship, not even obligation

There was so much that he didn't know, so much that she didn't feel that she could tell him. So much she'd never told him because she understood him better than he'd understood himself. He had always wanted to give her everything. But it had been an everything that revolved around him.

We... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.

Find a cause that's larger than yourself and then give your life to it.

There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.

Shikantaza is not a practice carried out by the individual. It is, rather, a practice in which we let go of the individual karmic self that is constantly seeking to satisfy its own desires.

If we open the hand of thought that grasps "this person" (that is, our self) as the center of the world, then our lives broaden and our hearts open to all beings. This is the basic teaching of Shakyamuni Buddha.

Never be proud but show humility towards others, true wisdom lies in being humble.

Not to be attached to something is to be aware of its absolute value. Everything you do should be based on such an awareness, and not on material or self-centered ideas of value.

You should not have any remains after you do something. But this does not mean to forget all about it. In order not to leave any traces, when you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it completely, like a good bonfire. You should not be a smoky fire. You should burn yourself completely. If you do not burn yourself completely, a trace of yourself will be left in what you do.