Quotes About Selflessness

A guy who advertises his own goodness is just another kind of asshole.

Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good.

I would rather lose the game than play it. I would rather be hurt than be mean. Because I can live with myself if I'm hurt. I don't think I could live with myself if I were mean.

O propósito do amor não é ser a solução, a resposta ou a cura para a outra pessoa. O propósito do amor é ajudar o outro a encontrar o que eles precisam, da maneira que você puder.

It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than we are to find it in service to ourselves.

He [David Foster Wallace] compares raising children to raising books, you should take pride in the work you do inside a family and not from how they make out in the world. "It's good to want a child to do well, but it's bad to want that glory to reflect back on you," is what he says.

You're not supposed to talk about your good deeds, I know. It effectively negates them and in the process makes people hate you.

You just take and take don´t you? Out there with your thumb in the air—not a care in the world, just grabbing whatever you can get. Yes, sir, you just take and take until you´re ready to burst. But what about giving? Did you ever think about that? Of course not—you´re too busy taking, Mr. Handout, Mr. Gimmee, Gimmee, Gimmee.

You're not supposed to talk about your good deeds, I know. It effectively negates them and in the process makes people hate you. If there's a disaster, for instance, and someone tells me he donated five thousand dollars to the relief effort—this while I gave a lesser amount, or nothing at all—I don't think, Goodness, how bighearted you are, but, rather, Fuck you for making me look selfish.

The guilt applies only to those things that are being given away for free.

Next, the bystanders saw something large and dark fall from one of the windows. "Someone's in there, all right," said a voice in the crowd. "He's trying to save his best cloth." When the next bundle began falling, the onlookers realized that it was a human being.

The most miserable people in the world are the people who are selfish and self-centered and who won't do anything for the good of others but only for themselves.  These are the ones who are the furthest from the Kingdom of God.  The Kingdom of God is God's all out answer to man's total needs.  The Kingdom of God is something we live.  We know and experience the Kingdom of God only to the extent that we practice it.

Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word servant.

People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.

She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.

El deseo debe estar presente para que tenga lugar el acto de dar.

Eres como Dios cuando fabricas productos para enriquecer las vidas de los demás, no para obtener un beneficio. El benefició vendrá, pero debe ser el Efecto y no la Causa de tu trabajo.

The process of giving is an essential aspect of reaching the advanced stages of kundalini unfoldment and continuing progress on the path of yoga. The more we are able to give, the more we are able to receive in terms of our own spiritual evolution.

I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for.

Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.

Forster] quotes approvingly from this discussion, from The Magic Flute [by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson] Lord Buddha was your gospel true? True and False. What was true in it? Selflessness and Love. What false? Flight from Life.

He asked questions, he was interested and interesting, he rarely spoke of himself. He had a calm voice for the worst accidents and emergencies.

And she had not paid a high price. Only love. Just love. And whatever Corinthians might say, love is not such a hard thing to forfeit, not if you've never really felt it. She did not love Archie, but had made up her mind, from that first moment on the steps, to devote herself to him if he would take her away.

He was thinking that if he had his life to live over again he would begin at once to find happiness in other people's happiness.