Quotes About Selflessness

Don't take the high ground and assume you already know what you'll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you'll find there isn't anything you won't do.

Joy only can be achieved through complete detachment, the detachment which is egoless and superegoless.

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

To be generous is the best way to live in this world.

Your wisdom should be without pride.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.

In hurting anyone, you hurt yourself, in loving anyone, you love yourself.

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

When you give something to a man and expect nothing — do not even expect the man to be grateful — his ingratitude will not tell upon you, because you never expected anything, never thought you had any right to anything in the way of a return. You gave him what he deserved; his own Karma got it for him; your Karma made you the carrier thereof.

He does not need anything. He does not want anything.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them." — Swami Vivekananda

That which the ignorant do with desire for results and gain, let the wise do without any attachment and without any desire for results and gain.

if you want to help others, your little self must go.

Even the most arrant coward becomes brave when the world praises him. A fool can do heroic deeds when the approbation of society is upon him, but for a man to constantly do good without caring for the approbation of his fellow men is indeed the highest sacrifice man can perform.

It is a weakness to think that any one is dependent on me, and that I can do good to another. This belief is the mother of all our attachment, and through this attachment comes all our pain.

the Himalayas, how grand and beautiful they are; I love them. They do not give me anything, but my nature is to love the grand, the beautiful, therefore I love them. Similarly, I love the Lord. He is the source of all beauty, of all sublimity. He is the only object to be loved; my nature is to love Him, and therefore I love. I do not pray for anything; I do not ask for anything. Let Him place me wherever He likes. I must love Him for love's sake. I cannot trade in love.

those who believe in God should pray — not for money, not for health, nor for heaven; pray for knowledge and light; every other prayer is selfish.

but for a man to constantly do good without caring for the approbation of his fellow men is indeed the highest sacrifice man can perform.

He who does not depend on anything, who is pure and active, who does not care whether good comes or evil, and never becomes miserable, who has given up all efforts for himself; who is the same in praise or in blame, with a silent, thoughtful mind, blessed with what little comes in his way, homeless, for the whole world is his home, and who is steady in his ideas, such a one is My beloved Bhakta." Such alone become Yogis.

To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

The selfless and unattached man may live in the very heart of a crowded and sinful city; he will not be touched by sin.