Quotes About Selflessness

Love is not a contract between two narcissists.

Biblical love is not emotions or feelings, but attitudes and actions that seek the best interests of the other person, regardless of how we feel toward him.

No one becomes pure and selfless overnight; it involves time and concentrated effort, coupled with tremendous patience and love.

Never procrastinate in showing love. Don't delay. Don't put it off. Do it now.

Love is selflessness, Self is lovelessness.

Love is primarily giving. It's an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

Love... love... love, never counting the cost.

If you love something, give it away...

My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness.

It is the love that we give and the service we render that really is the great payoff.

The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.

Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food.

People who are obsessed with Jesus give freely and openly without censure. Obsessed people love those who hate them and who can never love them back.

We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.

The purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved.

If you really have humility when you love, there is only one thought: "What can I do for my beloved?"

I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself.

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.

If you wish the world to become loving and compassionate, become loving and compassionate yourself.

Sacrifice, that's what we do for the people we love.

I don't have children - yet! But I can imagine a love so potent that you would give your life for them. To give your life over to something else outside of you, that's love.

Love looks like something.