Quotes About Selflessness

Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act

What is a Gift? A Gift is your way of serving the world.

A love that asks for nothing and gives nothing in return; it is simply there. I will never be yours and you will never be mine; nevertheless, I can honestly say: I love you.

How can one set these opposite states in harmony? There is only one way: through giving oneself completely. How does one give oneself? By forgetting the traumas of the past, and by not forming expectations about the future - in other words, the orgasm. How can one do this? Very simply: by not being afraid to err.

Love is an act of faith, not an exchange.

One loves because Love is the Greatest Gift, not because it gives us something in return.

Quien ama esperando una recompensa está perdiendo el tiempo.

Dancing transforms everything, demands everything, and judges no one. Those who are free dance, even if they find themselves in a cell or a wheelchair, because dancing is not the mere repetition of certain movements, it's a conversation with a Being greater and more powerful than everyone and everything. To dance is to use a language beyond selfishness and fear.

She hated the love she had been given because it had asked for nothing in return, which was absurd, unreal, against the laws of nature. The love asking for nothing in return had managed to fill her with guilt, with a desire to fulfill another's expectations even if that meant giving up everything she had dreamed of for herself.

Even worse are those people who say: I'm happy because I'm sacrificing my life for those I love. And do you think that people who love us want to see us suffering for their sakes? Do you tink that love is a source of suffering? To be honest, yes Well, it shouldn't be

There is no happiness in having and getting, only in giving.

People always tend to help others just so that they can feel better than what they really are

Chi ama aspettandosi qualcosa in cambio perde il suo tempo.

The only greatness is unselfish Love.

People tend to help others just so that they can feel are better than they really are.

The search for peace is a form of prayer that generates light and heat.Forget about yourself for awhile and understand that in that light lies wisdom and in that heat lies compassion.

Y, de nuevo, quien ama sale ganando, aunque no busque ninguna recompensa.

To repay evil with kindness is the proof of a good man; a superior man blames himself, a common man blames others.

Do not test the measure of his love for you by the way he expresses his body's heat. He is not thinking of you at those times. He is thinking of himself.

To shut one's door while others suffer, to care only for one's own, disclaiming responsibility for humanity, is to destroy all good impulse and to build up a deadly selfishness which will be a boomerang in its effect upon ourselves. Let our own children see the opportunity now theirs for Americanism in the best and traditional sense. There was never a better hour than this to be an American. May 1940, Christian Herald.

But somewhere I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself.

What shall I do? she asked in a small voice. Forget your own self, he said. But all these years, she urged, I have so carefully fulfilled my duty. Always with the thought of your own freedom in your mind, he said. She could not deny it. She sat motionless, her hands folded on the pearl-gray satin of her robe. Direct me, she said at last. Instead of your own freedom, think how you can free others, he said gently. She lifted her head. From yourself, he said still gently.

She is tired to the heart," Ying muttered. "She is tired because in this great house all feed on her, like suckling children.

In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.