Quotes About Selflessness

He wasn't a hero. He wasn't the man who stepped forward and saved the innocent. He was lost himself. Shadows had invaded a long time ago and stolen his life. But he would give anything he had left to be the man who found a way to save Judith

She found only the healer in him. All else was pushed aside. There was so much selflessness, so much purity of soul, Shea could only marvel. She followed his lead without reservation. He was the epitome of what she had always striven to be. A true healer, with a gift so rare and precious, she felt humbled in his presence. Later she could remember that Gregori was a powerful ancient, that he could make anyone believe and see anything he wanted.

He wouldn't give up on her. He was prepared to do anything, fight any battle. No matter if the act was forbidden or not, if he could get her back, he would humble himself, put himself in any kind of jeopardy or fight any battle to save her. -Dimitri

You have the white knight syndrome in spades," she murmured. "Don't kid yourself, baby, there's nothing white knight about me.

Women often are much more willing to fight for their children than themselves. -Airiana (quoting Max)

I'm not going to hurt you, Bree. I'd shoot myself in the heart before I'd do that again.

My life has never been my own. I've got all the money in the world, and nothing that I want. Until you. I want you. You're what I want for myself.

She didn't think she had anything to offer him. He got that. She had no money, no family, nothing at all in her eyes. Yet she gave him this magnificent gift - her and her trust, when she had no reason to trust anyone, least of all him.

Don't look at me as if you fear me. I would give my life for you.

I belong to you. I offer my life for you. Take what it is you need, what it is you want.

Most parents would willingly sacrifice their lives for their children, MaryAnn. There is no greater love.

Until you have done something for humanity," wrote the great American educator Horace Mann, "you should be ashamed to die.

Christopher Hitchens

Compliment but do not covet.

For my love, I will wade through an ocean of blood, even if it destroys me

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I'm not fighting for myself anymore.... It makes a difference.

In short, if one is entitled to everything, then one is thankful for nothing.

An aha experienced decades ago by one of us is relevant to this point. Halfway through a grueling clinical internship, CP [Christopher Peterson] complained to his supervisor, "No one [meaning the patients] ever says thank you for anything I try to do." The response from the experienced psychiatrist stopped CP mid-whine: "If they [the patients] could say thank you, how many of them do you think would be in a psychiatric hospital?

I am not dead. Death does not exist. I am alive! That is the purpose of this tale, to let everyone know that they do go on and that they don't need to be afraid, as I was afraid. Yet I also have a selfish reason for wanting my story told. I was young when I died. I didn't have a chance to make my mark in the world. I didn't do anything unique, nothing that will change the course of history. But I wasn't a bad girl. I don't want to be forgotten. I want people to remember me.

god gives but does not share --haitian proverb

He preferred yielding his own wish to gratify others, rather than to insist upon having his own way.

Los franciscanos piden la pobreza para sí mismos, pero nunca la han pedido para los otros. No

No true friendship takes account of credit and debt. It gives freely, without thought of compensation or reward.