Quotes About Selflessness

First we must understand that all of the world's deceptions flow from the belief that love is primarily for the fulfillment and comfort of the self. The world poisons love by focusing first and foremost on meeting one's own needs. Christ taught that love is not for the fulfillment of the self but for the Glory of God and the food of others. True love is selfless. It gives; it sacrifices; it dies to its own needs.

In the past, the starting point of my relationships was what I wanted instead of what God wanted. I looked out for my needs and fit others into my agenda. Did I find fulfillment? No, I found only compromise and heartache. I not only hurt others; I also hurt myself, and most seriously, I sinned against God.

Look for, and work on becoming, a man or woman who, as a single, seeks God wholeheartedly, putting Him before anything else. Don't worry about impressing the opposite sex. Instead, strive to please and glorify God. Along the way you'll catch the attention of people with the same priorities.

Don't concern yourself with being right in others' eyes. And don't secretly hope that their lives will fall apart so that your opinion will be vindicated. Instead, concentrate on obeying God in your own life and, when possible, helping others to obey Him as well. You don't have to prove others wrong to continue on the course you know God has shown you.

The best relationships are between two people who care more about each other's good than their own momentary pleasure.

It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set aside the near advantage, the momentary pleasure; the snatching of seeming good to self; and to act for remoter ends, for higher good, and for interests other than our own.

Love comes when manipulation stops when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Those fourteen months had shaken me to my core, to the point where I no longer knew anything for sure except that parents should not look to their children to meet their needs. You don't adopt a child because you need more love in your life. You had better have the love part figured out already.

Un hombre no hará nada si no se olvida de sí mismo.

Si tu ojo derecho te hace caer, sácatelo», dice el Señor.

I am a warrior. I kill because I must. I kill to protect those who cannot protect themselves—and you did not thank me for saving your life, but you are welcome, just the same.

Practice is not about what you get, it is about what you give. Whether you are driven or resistant, the medicine is the same: do what is truly possible with unwavering commitment to giving yourself to the moment. Without this intention, practice becomes another task to be completed, and it loses its ability to transform. And, transformation, or freedom, is the reason for all discipline.

The stinging insects clung to one another and floated in clumps the size of basketballs, the ants on bottom giving their lives to save those on top. They

Nothing remains to me except to be someone who has never acted in her own best interest, and who has never known a greedy passion except one: to cherish.

If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.

Infantile love follows the principle 'I love because I am loved.' "Mature love follows the principle 'I am loved because I love.' "Immature love says 'I love you because I need you.' "Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.

Most people who choose to do something on the basis of what other people need make themselves misera­ble.

dass es völlig hirnrissig ist, etwas für andere Menschen zu tun, weil man selbst ein Mensch ist und deshalb weiß, wie wenig sie es verdienen? Kaum hat man das erkannt, bricht der Sinn jeglicher Beschäftigung in sich zusammen, und alles, was man fortan unternimmt, kann nur noch als Teil eines Spiels geschehen. Die Christen waren schlicht Pragmatiker mit ihrem 'Liebe deinen Nächsten'. Nur das 'wie dich selbst' hätten sie weglassen sollen.

Die Tatsache, dass wahre Schönheit mit Selbstvergessenheit zu tun hatte, passte zum seltsamen Humor des Schöpfers: Jene, die sie besaßen, wussten nichts damit anzufangen, während alle, die etwas davon verstanden, niemals in ihren Besitz gelangten.

Wenn er jetzt einen Herzanfall bekam, hatte Kron erreicht, was er wollte; also würde er keinen Herzanfall bekommen. Kron keinen Gefallen zu tun war ein guter Grund, am Leben zu bleiben.

Similarly, only once we let go of all we know, including all our self-centered concerns, and break free of the cocoons we spin around ourselves to shut out the world can we become the truly beautiful beings we are meant to be.

Pregnancy = "the slow, difficult, and delightful apprenticeship in attentiveness, gentleness, forgetting oneself. The ability to succeed in this path without masochism and without annihilating one's affective, intellectual, and professional personality - such would seem to be the stakes to be won through guiltless maternity.

Since he has nothing, since he is nothing, he can sacrifice everything.

Sabes?, hacer el bien a los demás sobre todo le hace bien a uno mismo. A mí me permite pensar que el día en que comparezca ante Dios, me perdonará todas mis faltas a cuenta de lo que haya podido hacer de bien a mis semejantes.