Quotes About Selflessness

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A martyrdom is always the design of God, for His love of men, to warn them and to lead them, to bring them back to His ways. It is never the design of man; for the true martyr is he who has become the instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, and who no longer desires anything for himself, not even the glory of being a martyr.

Humility is endless.

Because love does not do sums, but instead make choices, and then gives its all.

How can you care for a rough man like me?' he asked me. 'How can you love a man who can bring you no lands but the farm a soldier's pension can buy? Who can give your children no title of nobility?' Because love does not do sums, I should have told him. Love makes choices, and then gives its all. Had he seen himself as I first saw him though, he could have had no questions.

To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look out for yourself. For the Arab mind, the self is an obstacle, an impediment, in humanity's quest foe real progress.

Les gens gentils réussissent mieux que les autres. Le plus beau quand on s'intéresse aux autres, c'est qu'on se détourne de ses propres soucis, ses propres angoisses et ca coute beaucoup moins chère qu'une psychothérapie.

My son, the wise are few; for Wisdom very seldom pleases, so that they are few who seek her. Wisdom will compel whoever entertains her to avoid all selfishness and to escape from praise. But Wisdom seeks them who are worthy, discovering some here and there, unstupefied and uncorrupted by the slime of cant, with whom thereafter is is a privilege to other men to tread the self-same earth, whether or not they know it.

If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me.

I wanted to have something good to remember about today," she replied quietly. "Something that wasn't petty and mean. Sometimes you have to provide such moments yourself.

To love in any way is to be like a child—it means to be vulnerable, to be wide-eyed, to be selfless. There is no such thing as free love; love is the most costly expression in the world. To love romantically is to give of oneself fully and completely, a merging and meshing of souls so that the twain become a unity. It is to allow the sense of wonder to fully enrapture.

Love? You have no understanding that to love is to give, not to take.

As Paul wrote, a love that is patient, showing no jealousy or arrogance, keeping no record of wrong, not seeking its own and not provoked by another's behavior. These are the evidences of true love which flows from those who know the Father and His limitless love for them.

He who holds his life dear is destroying it; And he who makes his life of no account in this world Will keep it to the life of the ages." Yeshua

Love is giving, not taking.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

a vital component of charity and grace is the ability not to draw attention to one's possession of them.

My mother often says that it is the mark of a truly good person if she is happy for those she has never met.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

I look singularly to myself, I am right nought;

I think part of the problem is that I've always been inclined to put his needs before my own. I have this inherent compulsion to do everything in my power to make sure that he's happy.

I suppose I'll be remembered as dull. Timid. No one ever knew me. People came. They went. I was kind, I think. Not sympathetic, but considerate of others. I always gave up my place in line. I loaned out pencils and paper, or let people take them from me. I never reported a sexual assault.

I'm all she's got and if I don't make it this time . . ." You'll pass through the light. A ribbon of guilt twists my stomach. I'm all Kim and Chip have too. But the difference is, they'll be better off without me.

I express my faith by being extremely generous to others, particularly those in need -- not censorious of myself, which I see as a kind of useless, tight-fisted vanity.