Quotes About Selflessness

In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.

Because, Jack, you volunteered to be taken down into eternal torment in place of her. This is the absolute minimum (unless I'm mistaken) that any female requires from her man.

The tragedy—and the entire point—of being a parent was the moment when the story stopped being about you.

Fearless for oneself, fear for others—that must be what it means to be a hero.

Your life has nothing to do with you. It is about everyone whose life you touch and how you touch it.

Whatever you choose for yourself, give to another. If you choose to be happy, cause another to be happy. If you choose to be prosperous, cause another to prosper. If you choose more love in your life, cause another to have more love in theirs. Do this sincerely—not because you seek personal gain, but because you really want the other person to have that—and all the things you give away will come to you.

For parents who do not want children questioning their values are not parents who love their children, but rather, who love themselves through their children.

But we all like to feel needed. Then stop it. Like to feel unneeded instead—for the greatest gift you can give someone is the strength and the power not to need you, to need you for nothing.

You would give and share automatically, and so, there would be far fewer contracts to break, because a contract is about the exchange of goods and services, whereas your life would be about the giving of goods and services, regardless of what exchange may or may not take place. Yet in this kind of one-way giving would your salvation be found, for you would have discovered what God has experienced: that what you give to another, you give to your Self. What goes around, comes around.

Si se ve como Buda, camina como Buda, habla como Buda y actúa como Buda, con seguridad no es Buda, sino un impostor que tan sólo busca tu atención y adulación. Porque el verdadero Buda no querría nada de ti, mucho menos el reconocimiento de su grandeza, y sólo desearía tu propia realización.

All of your life you have been taught that it is better to give than to receive. Yet you cannot give what you do not have. This is why self-gratification is so important—and why it is so unfortunate that it has come to sound so ugly. Obviously, self-gratification at the expense of others is not what we're talking about here. This is not about ignoring the needs of others. Yet life should also not have to be about ignoring your own needs.

Giving my brain up. That's what's important.

And you shouldn't assume that everything is always about you.

Never have so many given so much for so long for so little for so few for so seldom.

In this life, we don't meet many people who truly love us, who accept us for who we are, who put us before themselves.

that wanting to give up "anything" for someone else's happiness is a dysfunctional symptom of love addiction and codependence.

When you see a Minister thinking more of himself than of you, and in all his actions seeking his own ends, that man can never be a good Minister or one that you can trust. For he who has the charge of the State committed to him, ought not to think of himself, but only of his Prince, and should never bring to the notice of the latter what does not directly concern him.

Nothing consumes itself so much as generosity, because while you practise it you're losing the wherewithal to go on practising it.

True love means that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.

What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.

Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.

Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.

Dawson, she knew, had saved Alan's life- but in the end, he'd saved Jared's as well. And for her that meant...everything. 'I gave you the best of me,' he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd done exactly that.