Quotes About Selflessness

The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer realizes himself or the fact that he is praying.

Education will always be torn between two fatalities: apostleship and egoism.

She wasn't looking for a man that nobly beat his chest and proclaimed, "I would die for you!", in fact, she wasn't looking for anyone. She was content in waiting for a man that said, "l will live for you", then proved it. One is a once in a lifetime event. The other is a lifetime event

But one thing was perfectly clear: John was sacrificing himself to save the company. He was over his head and he knew it. Although it meant the end of his own career, he bent over backward to make sure that the transition would go as smoothly as possible. He blew himself out of the water to bring Chrysler back to life. And that is the test of a real hero.

Another definition of a hero is someone who is concerned about other people's well-being, and will go out of his or her way to help them -- even if there is no chance of a reward. That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero.

He who strives for happiness is a fool. The wise man makes happiness for another.

Some hold love to be for conquest, both of persons and of things, But supreme love, all unheeding, straight forgets the gift it brings.

I always try to turn the spotlight on the other person." The longer you keep it shining away from you, the more interesting he or she finds you.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.

Love is not a thing, it is not lost when given. You can offer your love completely to hundreds of people and still retain the same love you had originally.

You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.

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

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.

Having a Care Package relationship keeps a character from being completely selfish.

The road to becoming such a person-a child of' light-involves abandoning everything to God: what others think of us, what others' harmful motives might be, fears about what others might do to us, hopes for getting ahead. We come to truly believe that God knows what he's doing, and he'll keep on doing it (I Peter 4:19, m,,(,).

If you will thank me, let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you, might add force to the other inducements which led me on, I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe, I thought only of you.

I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

A straightforward, open-hearted man like Weston, and a rational, unaffected woman like Miss Taylor, may be safely left to manage their own concerns. You are more likely to have done harm to yourself, than good to them, by interference." "Emma never thinks of herself, if she can do good to others," rejoined Mr. Woodhouse, understanding but in part. "But, my dear, pray do not make any more matches; they are silly things, and break up one's family circle grievously.

Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

He became what he ought to be: useful to his father, steady and quiet, and not living merely for himself.