Quotes About Selflessness

Heroes don't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they don't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. 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.

Is it really worth dying for the person you love?

When you have a child, you will do anything for her. You may not do it well, but you will kill yourself trying. You will trip over obstacles as you clear them out of her path. You will give her the choices you didn't have.

As I watched her, I understood why a mother would starve herself to feed a baby; how there was always time and room for a child to curl close to her side; how she could be soft enough to serve as a pillow and strong enough to move heaven and earth.

Maybe this was the job of a mother: to buy time for her child, no matter what. Even if it meant doing something she'd rather not; even if it left her flat on her back.

With my heart racing, I ran in the other direction; leaving the rest of this rescue to people who actually want to be heroes.

Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.

In both relationships, there were only two people: one who gave and one who sacrificed

I kept hoping, silently, that you would want to save her like you hadn't been able to save yourself.

I thought that if I loved you hard enough, I could move mountains for you; I could make you fly. It didn't matter to me how that happened—just as long as it did. I wasn't thinking of who I might hurt, only who I could rescue.

There's this little acronym I was taught in grade school—it's J-O-Y. It's supposed to make Plain children remember that Jesus is first, Others come next, and You are last.

Because it takes more strength to change someone else's life than it takes to change your own.

What good was a personal victory to someone who'd spent her life losing herself for the greater good of everyone else?

It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all.

Once, when her brothers had been fighting over who got more spaghetti for dinner, her mother had said, You don't look at another person's plate to see if they have more than you. You look to see if they have enough.

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone else suffer than it does to take the pain yourself?

Be a mensch, my mother told me, no matter what situation you're in. Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

Terkadang kau harus jadi manusia yang buruk demi menjadi ibu yang baik.

What good was a personal victory to someone who'd spent her life losing herself for the greater good of everyone else? -Plain Truth

If you'll dare to take your mind off your troubles, get your mind off your own needs and, instead, seek to be a blessing to other people, God will do more for you than you could even ask or think.

The real cost of true friendship is death (John 15:13).

True change comes only when we die to ourselves and allow Christ to set the pace.

True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.

Jesus wasn't seeking His own honor, but rather modeling the Honor Principle to the ones He was sent to.