Quotes About Selflessness

That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

I remember calling directors numerous times and saying, 'Oh, you should cast so-and-so instead of me. They're much better for the role.'

Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.

I think that, as you get older, you become less focused on yourself and more focused on the people in your life.

I've never been a break-you-down, one-on-one guy.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. It's a never ending study, once we have learned to love, we will learn to live. Love creates an 'us' without destroying a 'me!'

'Made' is about opening your heart to people who deserve your love and not trying to turn other people into something that they're not: not trying to save people who don't want to be saved. If you go down that dark path, you're not going to end up doing any good.

I'm better not operating at center stage.

Not everything has to be a money-making operation. You do things sometimes because it makes you feel good.

Who are you? he said. I am the Happy Prince. Why are you weeping then? asked the swallow; you have quite drenched me.

The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality.

And unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality.

I am covered with fine gold, said the Prince, you must take it off, leaf by leaf, and give it to my poor.

Lord Henry smiled. People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

He gives me good advice...People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

I always pass on good advice.  It is the only thing to do with it.  It is never of any use to oneself. mabel

It is said that all martyrdoms seemed mean to the looker-on.

People are fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

Adevarul despre casatorie este acela ca te face sa nu mai fi egoist. Iar oamenii lipsiti de egoism sun incolori. Le lipseste individualitatea

Why can't you be like the Happy Prince?" asked a sensible mother of her little boy who was crying for the moon. "The Happy Prince never dreams of crying for anything.

I'm always going to keep your heart safe, even if mine has to stop beating for that to happen.

Many men in Packy's position would have shrunk from diving in to the rescue, fully clad. Packy was one of them.

Modesty, if one may trust to the verdict of the mass of mankind, is a good quality. It sweetens the soul and makes for a kindly understanding of one's fellows.