Quotes About Selflessness

Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

Perfect love will never want the preeminence in everything, it will never want to take the place of another, it will always be willing to take the back seat.

Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

Love is doing something you don't want to do for someone you don't particularly like at that moment.

The key to a better life: Complain less, appreciate more. Whine less, laugh more. Talk less, listen more. Want less, give more. Hate less, love more. Scold less, praise more. Fear less, hope more.

Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.

When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.

If you want to be miserable, think of yourself. If you want to be happy, think of others.

Don't call me a saint; I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.

Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.

Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.

In my daughter's eyes, I am a hero, I am strong and wise, and I know no fear, but the truth is plain to see, she was sent to rescue me, I see who I want to be, in my daughter's eyes.

The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.

May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.

Me I never had the chance to say,Well,I'm going to do something I want to do."I always did if for my family,for my children, for my father,for my mother."

Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take.

When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.

Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself.

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do

Don't wait to give until you receive; anyone can give something after they've first been given something themselves.