Quotes About Selflessness

Forse non siamo capaci di amare proprio perchè desideriamo essere amati, vale a dire vogliamo qualcosa (l'amore) dell'altro invece di avvicinarci a lui senza pretese e volore solo la sua semplice presenza.

Možda nismo u stanju da se volimo upravo zato što želimo da budemo voljeni, tj zato što od onog drugog tražimo nešto (ljubav), umesto da mu prilazimo bez zahteva i želimo samo njegovu prisutnost. - Nepodnošljiva lako?a postojanja, Milan Kundera

Si nous sommes incapables d'aimer, c'est peut-être parce que nous désirons être aimés, c'est-à-dire que nous voulons quelque chose de l'autre (l'amour), au lieu de venir à lui sans revendications et ne vouloir que sa simple présence.

You should be a pleasing personality. Instead of thinking about how you should be pleased, I don't like this, I don't do like that, instead of, what have I done to please others?

If you are extremely generous, greed will run away.

Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help wipe away tears; our being hated helps those we love.

We learn many virtues in our Christian families. Above all, we learn to love, asking nothing in return.

If someone takes responsibility without force, that is love.

Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,Who gives and asks no payment.

Love is my family. I would die for them.

Sacrifice is the essence of love, which is the essence of God.

Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.

It requires less skill to love than to be loved.

Everyone does things for love.

We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.

authority love your neighbor.no matter what the condition is. even if it means to sacrifice your plan to do what he or she wants.

No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her.

Have charity towards all beings. Pity those who are in distress. Love all creatures. Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the faults of others.

Love is putting yourself second

To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.

Wheresoever we seek our own, there we fall from love.

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,- Creation's blot, creation's blank.

It's a mistake to think that you must feel love to give it.