Quotes About Selflessness

I shouldn't be your first. Then again, I don't think I've got honor enough to stand aside and let you give yourself to anyone else. Not now." "I want this," she whispered resolutely. "I want you.

I shouldn't be your first. Then again, I don't think I've got honor enough to stand aside and let you give yourself to anyone else. Not now." "I want this," she whispered resoulutely. "I want you.

I will bear this pain for you," he swore. "If one of us has to bleed, it will be me. It'll always be me.

Was this what it felt like to do something unselfish? The sensation was weird. Uncomfortable, yet… not awful. Like liquor that tasted like shit but went down smooth.

We were designed to love and when we do, something good develops inside. We feel clean, rich, whole. Even better, we become less concerned with how we feel and more concerned with the lives of others.

I believe the vital ingredient is love—a state of caring and compassion that is so deep and genuine that the barriers we erect around the self are transcended.

The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need.

I have more fun and enjoy more financial success when I stop trying to get what I want and start helping other people get what they want.

Always do your work, Arjuna, but do not claim its yield, neither think of yourself in charge, nor flee the battlefield. Balanced in your duty, without care to win or lose, turn your work to yoga like the learned sages do.

Lea--when a man climbs a glass mountain, it's not usually for the damn golden apple. It's for the person he gives the apple to.

Moriría por ti; pero no estoy dispuesto a permitir que tu mueras por mi, y menos por Jack. Christian

She was a polite person, and politeness meant making others feel better even if it made you feel like shit.

what a thing to do—to give up your whole self for someone else. To love someone that much. To be always and forever there, no matter what. To hold on like that.

Friends don't count the cost of favors.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

She doesn't get mad enough. She holds it in and lets it eat away at her heart. Puts everyone and everything else first. If she's mad, she can let go of whatever the fuck it is she's been pretending away.

Being humble, I think, is one of the most underrated character traits around.

Sometimes when we forget to do things for others, it's because we're too wrapped up in our own problems.

Sometimes, with Cinnamon, it was like she fell into this "impress the guy" mode and forgot the primary rule of friendship, which was to make your bud look good in front of her boy. Not stupid.

Sometimes when we forget to do things for others, it's because we're too wrapped up in our own problems. When actually, what we need to forget is ourselves. Change is healthy, right?

I know I deserve nothing, but if you want me I'm yours.

Charlie...I can't go out with you if I'm in love with someone else. Even if he no longer wants me.

Sabe, às vezes, quando esquecemos de fazer as coisas para os outros, (...) é porque estamos envolvidos demais com os nossos problemas. (...) Quando, na verdade, precisamos esquecer de nós mesmos.

I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.