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Quotes About Selflessness

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
~ Albert Einstein
Being a mother is the hardest job on earth.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Being a mom has pushed me to want to make the world a better place.
~ Unknown
Being a mother means your wants come last and your child's needs comes first.
~ Unknown
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
~ Isadora Duncan
Being a Mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children go.
~ Unknown
Being a mother is not about what you gave up to have a child, but what you've gained from having one.
~ Unknown
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
~ Unknown
Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.
~ St Francis of Assisi
A true brave man is the one who dares to work against seft-interest.
~ Unknown
To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.
~ Unknown
It is a far far better thing that I do than anything I have ever done it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
~ Charles Dickens
Vanye: You're asking me to kill you.Luthiel: I'm asking you to save her.
~ Robert Fanney
If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.
~ Ann Brashares
Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die.
~ Unknown
But even then I knew it wasn't me that saved her life. It wasn't about me. I was just there while she was maybe going to die and maybe not, and then she just didn't.
~ Lucy Corin
Life demands death. Life demands death to ego – A state when we only think and care about ourselves.
~ Sunday Adelaja
The noblest life is the one laid down for another.
~ Jessica Khoury, Origin
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done through you and for you, not by you.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
~ Ivan Turgenev
Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for any one the things you would not desire for yourself.
~ Baha'u'llah
If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.
~ Rob Bell
If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.
~ George S. Clason