Quotes About Selflessness

If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.

This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you want to be good to yourself and others? Do you care about other people, always, sometimes, never? Or only when convenient? What kind of person do you want to be?

If I could be half the person my dog is, I would be twice the human I am.

If I could be half the person my dog is, I would be twice the human I am. from How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

All this counting and measuring of nanoparticles, each one thirty-billionths of a metre. She had been trying to measure how much of herself she had lost, had been waiting for the possibility of splendour, waiting to understand why she had given herself, so completely, away. She would not wait anymore. She

A life lived only for oneself - is a less lived life.

I admire a woman like T.R. "Tina" Threston. When nearly everyone else asks what a charity can do for them, she asks what she can do for a charity. That, my friends, is a rare woman indeed!

My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for.

God and angels don't get paid even though theirs is some of the most important work around. Ditto for volunteers.

Stop asking yourself what you want, what you desire, what interests you. Ask yourself instead: What has been given to me? Ask: What do I have to give back? Then give it.

I've given you everything,' she insisted again and again in her last days. 'Yes,' I agreed. She did. She did. She did. She'd come at us with maximum maternal velocity. She hadn't held back a thing, not a single lick of her love.

I've given you everything", she insisted again and again in her last days. "Yes, " I agreed. She had, it was true. She did. She did. She did. She's come at us with maximum maternal velocity. She hadn't held back a thing, not a single lick of her love.

Anything else? To be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of being. Your life will be a hundred times better for it. This is good advice for anyone at any age, but particularly for those in their twenties.

To be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of being. Your life will be a hundred times better for it. This is good advice for anyone at any age, but particularly for those in their twenties.

She's 32, and she has three children. She loves to be pregnant but she doesn't want anymore children in her life. So she decided to help another couple. And she's just been amazing.

Live with dignity. Live for others, that is how one earns respect

A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbours'.

...that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love...

Essential advice for the gardener: grow peas of mind, lettuce be thankful, squash selfishness, turnip to help thy neighbor, and always make thyme for loved ones.

I want to thank and pay tribute to all of our volunteers — those dedicated people who believe in all work and no pay.

Volunteers wear work-boots but leave a trail of angel footprints.

Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.

Volunteers are love in motion!