Quotes About Selflessness

A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

Humility cannot exist without love, and love cannot exist without humility. It is impossible for these virtues to exist except where there is great detachment from all created things.

One of these is love for each other; the second, detachment from all created things; the third, true humility, which, although I put it last, is the most important of the three and embraces all the rest.

The truly humble person will have a genuine desire to be thought little of, and persecuted, and condemned unjustly, even in serious matters. For, if she desires to imitate the Lord, how can she do so better than in this? And no bodily strength is necessary here, nor the aid of anyone save God.

Is quick relief worth it? No, it isn't. I'd rather take the pain myself so they won't have to.

You can't just check out and think it will all be over. It won't be over for anyone who loves you. You'll only leave them to run after the pieces that scatter in the angry wind. You'll leave them desperately trying to solve the problems you wouldn't . . . all while plugging their own wounds. Even if you're like me, single without children, you could impact generations.

Wash out your ego every once in a while, as cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well.

There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children. This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a role model, not a supermodel.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

One must reach the point of "not caring two straws about his own status" before he can wish wholly for God's kingdom, not his own, to be established.' Death to ambition as such will be the beginning of new life. Above all, the part of a man which puts success first must be humiliated if a man is ever to be really free.

Matt. 18:1-4; John 15:13; Eph. 6:5,6; Phil. 2:3-9; 1 Thess. 5:12,13; 1 Pet. 5:5; 2:20.

Gan : You're never involved, are you Avon? Have you ever cared for anyone? Vila : ...Except yourself? Avon : I have never understood why it should be necessary to become irrational in order to prove that you care. Or indeed why it should be necessary to prove it - *at all*. [exits] - Blake's 7

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies

Even a mama dog will protect her young to the death. What more of a mother?

I have been her greatest foe, and she my biggest protector. Her heart is so pure, like a child's. She gives without thinking. She longs to have beautiful things, I see it in her eyes, but she always thinks of us first.

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

I prayed earnestly for this Sister who had caused me so much struggle, but this was not enough for me. I tried to do everything I possibly could for her, and when tempted to answer her sharply, I hastened to give her a friendly smile and talk about something else, for, as it says in The Imitation, "It is better to leave everyone to his own way of thinking than begin an argument." (Imit., III, xliv, 1).

My God, I choose everything, I will not be a Saint by halves, I am not afraid of suffering for Thee, I only fear one thing, and that is to do my own will. Accept the offering of my will, for I choose all that Thou willest.

Our Lord made me understand that the only true glory is that which lasts for ever; and that to attain it there is no necessity to do brilliant deeds, but rather to hide from the eyes of others, and even from oneself, so that "the left hand knows not what the right hand does."[1]

Our Father, St. John of the Cross, says with great truth: "All good things have come unto me, since I no longer sought them for myself.

Love lives only by sacrifice

Love will consume us only in the measure of our self-surrender.