Quotes About Selflessness

A baby takes everything from you. Everything you were before." She waved a hand, a ghostly flicker in the blackness. "Your time. Your figure. Your looks. They take your sleep until you don't know how to function.

A baby takes everything from you. Everything you were before." She waved a hand, a ghostly flicker in the blackness. "Your time. Your figure. Your looks. They take your sleep until you don't know how to function. But all that is just a disguise for the most important thing they take from you: your selfishness. And that's the true gift of parenthood.

what if we individually and collectively committed ourselves to the one thing that is needful—to replicating the loving sacrifice of Calvary to all people, at all times, in all places, regardless of their circumstances or merit? What if we just did the kingdom?

Christ's incarnation challenges us to give up our rights in order to love God and others. Philippians 2:6-7 says, "who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped, but emptied himself..." Christ did not hold onto his rights and privileges as deity but relinquished them in order to better love God and others.

Christ's incarnation challenges us to be servants of God and others. In Philippians 2:7, Paul said Christ "emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature." A slave or servant is consumed with the desires of those he serves. Likewise, instead of living for himself and his comfort, Christ sought to sacrificially serve God and others with his life.

Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.

Gandhi is an example of a man who grew from being self-centered as he was learning to become a lawyer in England, to becoming more family- and social oriented in South-Africa, where he led a reformation of Indian rights, to becoming determined in helping his nation recover from British rule at which he succeeded in the end with the help of a great many people. At the end of his life Gandhi was increasingly focused on a larger picture, encasing the whole world in his vision of a peaceful future.

Nikada nikome nije pala kapa s glave jer je nekom poklonio minut svog vremena.

Who has in his heart always the well-being of others, and is wholly given, in acts, thoughts, and in speech, to the good of others, he alone knows what dharma is.

It's when you start doing things for free, that you start to grow wings.

A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.

Before we can ever learn to love one another as we would hope to do, we must first be willing to see that for too long we have loved only ourselves . . . and that even this has been done poorly.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

those around a dying person, sometimes loving that person, had their own needs, and these were also to be addressed if you were in the world to heal.

Growing up means learning to be responsible for others—and embracing the great joys those responsibilities can bring. Homer taught me that building my life around someone other than myself, making myself responsible for someone else's life, is one of the most rewarding differences between being a kid and being an adult.

my main goal is to help my team

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

love is something you can do, regardless of how you are feeling.

Love is always open arms. Because If you close your arms you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

In that intimacy, when we really selflessly love each other, it changes us. It stays in or lives, even when we are apart.