Quotes About Selflessness

Except to the insane narrow-mindedness of industrial economics, selfishness does not pay.

Every day you have less reason Not to give yourself away. - 1993 I

But they who love the greater love Lay down their life; they do not hate.

My shutting the door won't keep him from coming back. Your shutting the door will. Have you the courage to shut it? Are you fond enough of him not to stand in his light?

Saint-Lambert, it is all for thee The flower grows; The rose's thorns are all for me; For thee the rose.

Agape, the Christian word, means unconquerable benevolence. It means that, no matter what people may do to us by way of insult or injury or humiliation, we will never seek anything else but their highest good. It

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

Love seeketh not Itself to please Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.' So sung a little Clod of Clay Trodden with the cattle's feet, But a Pebble of the brook Warbled out these metres meet: 'Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to Its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.

Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care; But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hells despair. So sang a little Clod of Clay, Trodden with the cattle's feet; But a Pebble of the brook, Warbled out these metres meet. Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to Its delight: Joys in anothers loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heavens despite. - The Clod and the Pebble

Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives it ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair. So sang a little clod of clay, Trodden with the cattle's feet, But a pebble of the brook Warbled out these metres meet: Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a hell in heaven's despite. THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE

Love seeketh not Itself to please. Nor for itself hath any care; But for another gives its ease. And builds a Heaven in Hells despair. Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to Its delight; Joys in anothers loss of ease. And builds a Hell in Heavens despite.

Chasing waves in a dedicated way was both profoundly egocentric and selfless, dynamic and ascetic, radical in its rejection of the values of duty and conventional achievement.

Friends will hand over anything that is needed and think nothing of it!

Zarife de kendine göre Yedigey'in iyili?ini istemi? ve bu konuda vicdan?n?n sesine uymu?tu. Bunun için Zarife'yi suçlam?yor, ona k?zam?yordu. Zaten insan sevdi?ine k?zamazd? ki! Daha çok kendisini suçluyor, kendisini kusurlu buluyordu. Sevdi?i kad?n ac? çekece?ine kendisi ac? çeksindi. B?rak?p gitse bile onu hep sevgiyle anard?.

What is modesty but inverted pride?

Walking in love means giving the other person what he or she needs the most when it is least deserved, because that's exactly how God has treated you.

Love is not a feeling; it's giving someone what he or she needs most when it is least deserved. That's how God loved me, and I choose to stick with the program.

Co-creation partnerships that prosper reject selfishness; they are all about "How can I serve you?

Even if we love them with our entire being, even if we're willing to commit the most heinous sin for their well-being. We must understand and respect the values that drive them. We must want what they want, not what we want for them.

Motherhood taught me something new about love. It was the one relationship where you gave everything you had and then wished you had more to give.

She did understand about sacrificing values for the sake of love. It was a lesson all mothers had to memorize.

This is what Kaikeyi failed to see: it's not enough to merely love someone. Even if we love them with our entire being, even if we're willing to commit the most heinous sin for their well-being. We must understand and respect the values that drive them. We must want what they want, not what we want for them.

love something—or someone—so much that you would willingly sacrifice yourself. I want to be brave like that.

This incident taught me that the more love we distribute, the more it grows, coming back to us from unexpected sources. And its corollary: when we demand love, believing it to be our right, it shrivels, leaving only resentment behind.