Quotes About Selflessness

Each good deed strengthens our angel wings.

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

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.

Remember, the only way to bring about the greater good, is to be the greater good.

Value in the greater good. The value in someone doing something for the greater good, isn't in the fact that they did something for the greater good. It is in the realization that of all the choices they had, they choose to do something for the greater good. They choose to be part of something bigger than themselves. Their choice is love.

We tarnish the luster of our most beautiful actions when we applaud them ourselves.

And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with love like that. It lights up the sky.

May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.

Imam Ab? al?asan al-Sh?dhil?, a thirteenth century scholar, once prayed, "O God, make my bad actions the bad actions of those whom You love, and do not make my good actions the good actions of those with whom You are displeased.

Hz ?sa ?öyle der: "Kendini yüceltenler alçalt?l?r, kendini alçaltanlar ise yüceltilir

Our survival depends on not just what we can get in life but also what we can give

When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.

Humble yourself, and you will find that Love is spreading a carpet of flowers beneath your feet.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

Love never reasons but profusely gives......gives like a thoughtless prodigal, it's all and trembles then, lest it has done too little.

I can give her no greater power than she has already, said the woman; don't you see how strong that is? How men and animals are obliged to serve her, and how well she has got through the world, barefooted as she is. She cannot receive any power from me greater than she now has, which consists in her own purity and innocence of heart. If she cannot herself obtain access to the Snow Queen, and remove the glass fragments from little Kay, we can do nothing to help her.

Sometimes Dr Reichhardt would say, 'We live not for ourselves, but for others. What we make of ourselves we make not for ourselves, but for others…

Das ist es ja, was ich immer sage: wir sind feige. Wir denken nur an das, was mit uns geschehen wird, nie an das, was den andern geschieht.

We live not for ourselves, but for others. What we make of ourselves we make not for ourselves, but for others…

To live with another within the compass of one heart: I must move to the side, must make myself small, so that the other has space and does not feel crowded.

And what is love? My measure of it is that I should have died to spare her. Her measure is for us to be together longer. I

Both love and true friendship are more than a way of knowing that we matter to someone else. They are a way of mattering to the world, bringing God into a world that would otherwise be a vale of selfishness and loneliness.

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are