Quotes About Selflessness

And it is good for a man not to touch a woman. And, he that is unmarried thinketh of the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; but he that is married careth for the things of this world, how he may please his wife.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Charity is the root of all good works.

For it is in giving that we receive.

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not seek to be consoled, as to console. To be understood, as to understand. To be loved, as to love. For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

To give, and not to count the cost to fight, and not to heed the wounds, to toil, and not to seek for rest, to labor, and not to ask for any reward, save that of knowing that we do thy will

O my God, teach me to be generous to serve you as you deserve to be served to give without counting the cost to fight without fear of being wounded to work without seeking rest and to spend myself without expecting any reward but the knowledge that I am doing your holy will. Amen

Lord, teach me to be generous; Teach me to serve you as you deserve; To give and not to count the cost; To fight and not to heed the wounds; To toil, and not to seek for rest; To labor, and not to ask for reward - except to know that I am doing your will.

Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace, that is enough for me.

O my God, teach me to be generous, teach me to serve you as I should, to give without counting the cost, to fight without fear of being wounded, to work without seeking rest, to labour without expecting any reward, but the knowledge that I am doing your most holy will.

When one loves, one does not calculate.

Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.

In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.

What do you think you're here to do?' She paused a moment, gazing out the rattling side window at the distant mountains. 'To help people along the way, ' she said, 'to bring them hot coffee when they're cold and scared to death and hangin' on for dear life.

No one acts altruistically without regard to the costs.

I realized that there was no point in denying oneself a pleasure because it was denied another, in refusing to allow oneself to be happy because someone else was unhappy.

Exalt yourself by devoting yourself to others, enrich yourself by making everyone's destiny your own, by enduring and understanding every facet of human suffering through your pity.

It's no use torturing oneself; it only tortures other people.

It is my opinion that you should lend yourself to others and give yourself only to yourself.

To be free of vanity or pride, these perhaps the gravest of all indulgences.

Help anyone and everyone so far as in you lies. Cease to be apathetic, indifferent! Exalt yourself by devoting yourself to others, enrich yourself by making everyone's destiny your own, By enduring and understanding every facet of human suffering through your pity.

En una comunidad solo puede reinar la armonía cuando los individuos subordinan sus propios intereses a los de la comunidad, en vez de procurar sacar ventajas personales de una posición pública.

Porque a ti, ciertamente, sólo te gustan las cosas fáciles, juguetonas, nada pesadas, tienes miedo de inmiscuirte en un destino ajeno. Lo que quieres es entregarte a todos, al mundo, no quieres ninguna víctima.