Quotes About Selflessness

My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn't all about me?

Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.

Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive - the sum of the parts equal more than the whole. I wonder who might wind up walking around with my liver, my lungs, even my eyeballs. I wonder what poor asshole would get stuck with whatever it is in me that passes for a heart.

It still hurts, she whispered. Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.

Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until you've got nothing left to give-and then realize that it still isn't what they need?

There is a reason people say being a mother is the hardest job in the world: You do not sleep and you do not get vacation time. You do not leave your work on your desk at the end of the day. Your briefcase is your heart, and you are rifling through it constantly. Your office is as wide as the world, and your punch card is measured not in hours but in a lifetime.

The thing about a mom is that she's always there. She's the one who rubs your back when you have the flu, who manages to notice you have no clean underwear and does your wash for you, who stocks the refrigerator with all the foods you love without having to ask. The thing about a mom is that you never imagine taking care of her, instead of the other way around.

Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until you've got nothing left to give- and then realize that it still isn't whay they need?

When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own.No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter how fucked up; no matter how much it made you feel like you were ripping yourself into pieces.

Let your work show off for you and not your ego.

Work for purpose, be for others.

Make a differenceWhen I live everyday, I ask myself "What did I do today?To make a difference to the world where I live, And that can happen only when I can be selfless and give.

Unfortunately, I'm not 185 and 6-3 and can run and catch fade routes all game. I do the dirty work. I'm all good. I'm thankful for it. Somebody's got to do it.

Just because your life sucks, doesn't mean you have to make other peoples lives suck.

There's really nothing I hate more than seeing the people I love unhappy. I would much rather be upset and hurting than them.

Love the giver more than the gift.

LOVE is sacrifice, how much willing to give up on yourself you are, defines how much love you bear for it.

I'm gonna smile, because I wanna make you happy, laugh, so you won't see my crying. I'm gonna let you go in style and even if it kills me, I'm gonna smile.

Don't talk about yourself so much... we'll do that when you leave.

When you do the right thing, it is not just for your own good, but for the betterment of the world.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Seek not validation you're divinely guided.