Quotes About Selflessness

I just want to be someone who loves his family more than he loves to drink.

Everybody needs to lower his ego.

If the cost is lowering one's ego and a bit of money, so be it.

My wife gets mad at me, because I'll worry more about my friends than I worry about myself.

It's such a magnificent thing to be able to love someone and expect nothing from them.

If you want to be a part of a team I manage, it is important to put your ego to one side.

In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.

Manners are nothing more than thinking about somebody else.

surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

perhaps it is loving that counts, not the being loved in return- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.

Sacrifice is the secret — you have to sacrifice things for art and it's the same with religion; and then the sacrifice turns out to be a gain." Then I got confused and I couldn't hold on to what I meant — until Miss Blossom remarked: "Nonsense, duckie — it's perfectly simple. You lose yourself in something beyond yourself and it's a lovely rest.

Doing things for others gives you a lovely glow. So does port, I said cynically.

the basement. "What do you want to do?" she said. "Whatever you want to do." "I want to do whatever's best for you." "What's best for me is to please you," I said. "I want to make you happy, Jack." "I'm happy when I'm pleasing you." "I just want to do what you want to do.

Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance.

If we are not willing to wake up in the morning and die to ourselves, perhaps we should ask ourselves whether or not we are really following Jesus.

Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.

When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.

Almost without exception the most beautiful, selfless people I've met are ones who've experienced personal tragedy.

For a moment sitting there above the city, i imagined life outside of narcissism. I wondered how beautiful it might be to think of others as more important than myself. I wondered how peaceful it might be not to be pestered by that childish voice that wants for pleasure and attention. I wondered how it would be like not to live in a house of mirrors, everywhere i go being reminded of myself.

I heard once that real love doesn't ask what is in it for me; it just gives unconditionally. It just tries to take the weight out of somebody else's pack, lessen his load, and if it gets reciprocated, that's great, but that isn't what you did it for.

I talk about love, forgiveness, social justice; I rage against American materialism in the name of alturism, but have I even controlled my own heart? The overwhelming majority of time I spend thinking about myself, pleasing myself, reassuring myself, and when I am done there is nothing to spare for the needy. Six billion people live in this world, and I can only muster thoughts for one. Me.

I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will simply love.

I talk about love, forgiveness, social justice; I rage against American materialism in the name of altruism, but have I even controlled my own heart? The overwhelming majority of time I spend thinking about myself, pleasing myself, reassuring myself, and when I am done there is nothing to spare for the needy.

People do not want to be enlightened about you (get to know you more) unless they are curious about you (you have something that can help them survive), and until they are enlightened about how you can help them survive, they will never commit.