Quotes About Selflessness

To "purify" the senses is to release them, so far as human beings may, from the tyranny of egocentric judgments; to make of them the organs of direct perception. This means that we must crush our deep-seated passion for classification and correspondences; ignore the instinctive, selfish question, "What does it mean to me?" learn to dip ourselves in the universe at our gates, and know it, not from without by comprehension, but from within by self-mergence.

For no man understandeth what love is in itself, but such are its workings: which giveth more than one can take, and asketh more than one can pay.

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

Oklahoma Wesleyan is not a 'safe place,' but rather a place to learn: to learn that life isn't about you, but about others; that the bad feeling you have while listening to a sermon is called guilt; that the way to address it is to repent of everything that's wrong with you rather than blame others for everything that's wrong with them,

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

The second phase—the phase of Being Awareness—intensifies as we become less involved with "me" and more concerned with cultivating a larger sense of what life is.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?

Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause -- the readiness to give and not ask for anything in return, the unquestioning willingness to lose everything, even if that loss is as something as precious as life itself.

When you love someone, that love has no limit, no measure, because you know in your deepest being that when that love demands sacrifice, you will give it without question. You will not look for reasons, for justification - the act of giving, of sacrificing, is a natural compulsion, like breathing, and it will, in the end, surprise you because you did it without second thoughts.

None will thank me for this, nor anyone will remember. -Istak

I know that I can be selfish and stubborn, but I want to be a good friend to you. The best kind of friend. Because that's the kind of friend you have always been to me." "Oh, Lottie." Tiana dropped the branch and wrapped her arms around her. "I'm glad you're here.

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

A man may do an immense deal of good, if he does not care who gets the credit for it.

The successful are those who can be saved from their own selfishness.

El amor, al menos en términos ideales, está dirigido a la felicidad del ser amado; el odio, en cambio, está destinado a la destrucción propia de quien lo ejerce. Era

Egli non le chiese perdono, ostentoÌ€ da quella sera di non lasciarla un momento, come sacrificandosi, nonostante ella lo pregasse di fare ciò che gli piaceva, per non vedergli sempre quell'aria rannuvolata.

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.

Qué alivio saber que una desgracia le ha ocurrido al prójimo y no a nosotros!

El amor es una quimera de un solo sentido como la flecha, que sólo tiene una punta, no dos. ¿Cuándo ha visto usted una flecha que vaya y venga? El amor es para darlo, no para pedirlo. No pida amor. Delo, si tiene. Y si no, pues no.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

people are happy, they usually become selfish, and automatically the law of Karma is set in action. Man often suffers loss through lack of appreciation.

Be the first to give help, and the last to ask for it.

One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.