Quotes About Selflessness

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because it sounds edifying, but because this is the way that human nature seems to work. We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

Using your own time to make someone else's life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody.

He said love is the willingness to put the happiness and evolution of the person you love before your own. Even if it means giving them up.

He will concede for her. Always only for her.

Try living for someone. Through it all—good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering. That's the hard thing.

Using some of your own time to make someone else's life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody. I almost can't stand it, it makes me so happy.

I don't fetch for humans!" But I'd cut the fucking moon out of the sky for her.

Si algo debe perderse, será mi honor por el tuyo. Si algo debe quedar olvidado, será mi alma por la tuya. Si la muerte vuelve a venir, será mi vida por la tuya. He sido entregado.

If aught must be lost, it will be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, it will be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, it will be my life for yours. I am Given." Smiling

If aught must be lost, 'twill be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, 'twill be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, 'twill be my life for yours. I am Given. That's what you said.

I'd die for him. There's nothing else to say. I'd give the last breath in my body and the last hope in my heart to keep him alive.

If aught must be lost, 'twill be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, 'twill be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, 'twill be my life for yours." He drew a deep breath and finished it, completing the spell that would haunt him for life. "I am Given.

Use me, Lisa," he encouraged softly. "Take whatever you want.

If aught must be lost, it will be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, it will be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, it will be my life for yours. I am Given.

If aught must be lost, 'twill be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, 'twill be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, 'twill be my life for yours. I am Given.

Because this is what it means to be the mothers. You're a team of your own, ready to pull your weight, ready to play with pain, ready to leave it all on the field, but you're still on the sidelines waiting for someone else's end-to-end rush, or gunning from three, or taking on four defenders himself.

Love is all about sacrifices—big and small ones. It's only when you know how much you could give up for somebody that you know what true love really is." The whirring fan spun above them,

Maybe with Sara's accident he had finally begun to see that life continued after a fall and that the hands that reached to pull you out didn't have to be your own.

Miten paljon mies antaisikaan naiselle, jos tämä rakastaisi miestä miehen itsensä vuoksi!

In an abused child's pure intent to make things right for everyone around him as he is growing up, he finds himself taking care of others at the expense of his own feelings and needs. Consequently, the child has no identity of his own. This is what is known as co-dependency.

It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.

I would give up the unessential; I would give up my money, I would give up my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me.

To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing in return.