Quotes About Selflessness

O miracle—thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty hands!

When we are centered on giving, we also receive, because our personal anxieties begin to dissipate from our thoughts. When we recognize that what is in the best interests of another is also of complete benefit to us, we gain inner tranquillity, if only briefly, because for that moment we have left our personal hell behind. The

She pushed a strand of white hair under the scarf. Surely, it seemed to Sweeney and Wettlaufer, she was the essence of the good deed unselfishly performed, the deed that could save the world if the world wanted saving.

If you are a good leader, Who talks little, They will say, When your work is done, And your aim fulfilled, "We did it ourselves." - Lao Tse

Whatever you seize for yourself is worthless. Only what is given you has value.

Modesty is not a bad habit, after all," the priest said. "Although humility would be better.

And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.

Guard within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness; know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself.

As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honour and praise. The next, the people fear, and the next the people hate. When the best leader's work is done, the people say, 'we did it ourselves!'

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

The love we give away is the only one we keep.

The issue is not so much being loved but being loving, which leads to the same wonderful feeling you experience when someone loves you.

It is not what we do, it is how much love we put in the doing.

A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.

A modest man never talks of himself.

Nobody does nothing for nobody for naught.

There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.

If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift.

You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.

Until I die, I'm going to keep doing. My people need me. They need somebody that's not taking from them and is giving them something.