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Quotes About Selflessness

Love was worth sacrificing for, he thought as he left his room. Even if it wasn't yours. -Phury's thoughts
~ J.R. Ward
If pain is truly love, for my family I die.
~ Ja Rule
Devotion is when your involvement with life is so absolute that you yourself do not matter anymore.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
...love him enough to give him this, even if it's at the price of your pride." (Annette to Cat)
~ Jeaniene Frost
True love BLOOMS when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
I think I'm a really good girlfriend, and I think that I could be a really good wife. I know that I love being able to give my love out to someone. I know there is somebody great out there for me.
~ Jennifer Love Hewitt
Is it really worth dying for the person you love?
~ Jodi Picoult
Love doesn't need to be answered, It just quietly and freely gives.
~ John de Ruiter
Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
Love, like virtue, is its own reward.
~ John Vanbrugh
Don't ask for love when you are not capable of giving it.
~ Jon Jones
[T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self.
~ Jonathan Franzen
In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Wanting others to love you, you give away your heart. Wanting others to see you, you give away your eyes.
~ Leonard Jacobson
My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I have to be able to love somebody except myself and the theater.
~ Marianne Faithfull
Love is not getting, but giving. It is sacrifice. And sacrifice is glorious!
~ Marion Milner
If I serve you in hopes of Paradise, deny me Paradise.If I serve thee in fear of hell, condemn me to hell.But if I love thee for love of thyself,then grant me thyself.
~ Mark Salzman
Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't make anyone ask for love.
~ Mary Edmunds
That which we look on with unselfish love And true humility is surely ours, Even as a lake looks at the stars above And makes within itself a heaven of stars.
~ Mary Gardiner Brainard
Love, for me, is always wanting the best for the other person even if it's not what's best for you.
~ Mike Colter
When one drops everything to come to aide one in desperate need of support, that's love
~ Missy Robertson
Why can't there be love that never gets tired?
~ Mother Teresa