Quotes About Selflessness

Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.

It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them

Love isn't only passion and joy. It's also sacrifice.

Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer.

The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service.

The most precious love is often the kind that isn't returned, and that is given freely.

Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.

Generosity is a practical expression of Love.

One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .

To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.

Love's like virtue, its own reward.

Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself.

We love most those who we serve most.

The only love language is 'die to self.'

It's not love if it hurts.

To get something you must give something away. To hold something you must give something away. To love something you must give something away.

To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.

Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!

The real test on the path of love is are you willing to give up everything for your love?

No act of love is ever wasted.

This is the meaning of true love, to give until it hurts.