Quotes About Selflessness

What is love? Love is not a collection of words, a sonnet, music or art. Love is the act of you not existing so that someone else can.

no matter how inconvenient it was to him. That's what love's all about.

If you love someone, you should be there for them during the tough stretches, no matter the cost to yourself—or your job. Love's supposed to bear all things and endure all things. It's not supposed to fail.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

At the start of every conversation ask yourself what can I give, not what can I take.

We only have what we give.

Yeah, well, there's this thing about love. You aren't one hundred percent invested in what you want anymore. It becomes at least half about the other person.

Love is being, not belonging. Giving and receiving, not possessing.

Give of yourself, not yourself.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.

Thus, there is nothing that is hidden. And it is just like this in Learning. For the disciples of Lao Tzu, the Buddha, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Ch'ao Fu, and Hsu Yu,53 they were one in seeing the essence of mind in selflessness and absence of desire. Thus, they had not a hair's breadth of selfish thought in their heads to encumber them. It was simply that the landscape they saw was different, and so in their separation, their schools were different.

Her way of living in the world, filled with interest in what the world can give her, dismisses the egocentric abyss of the suicide's novel that ends by sinking into itself.

The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering: Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.

He must increase, but I must decrease" (John 3:30 KJV).

God will not cooperate with prayers of mere self-interest, or prayers that come from impure motives.

Some seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge: that is curiosity. Others seek knowledge that they may themselves be known: that is vanity. But there are still others who seek knowledge in order to serve and edify others, and that is charity." The

a marriage with Christ at the center of it pulls you right out of yourself. It teaches each partner, the husband and the wife, to forget about self for a while in care and sacrifice for the other. We come to ourselves by losing ourselves.

Pleasure comes naturally as a by-product of pursuing something else, like the good of another person, and the best way to ruin pleasure is to make it your goal.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Amar es dar lo que no se tiene

You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. (Matt. 20:25–28)

True greatness, true leadership, is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve