Quotes About Selflessness

I learned that true love turns the other cheek, does not take a wrong into account, loves all people regardless of their indifference or hostility.

Love can't be earned, it can only be given.

Those who realize the epic story of life is not about them but actually about the people around them somehow win in the end.

I liked the idea of loving people just to love them, not to get them to come to church.

I wondered how beautiful it might be to think of others as more important than myself. I wondered at how peaceful it might be not to be pestered by that childish voice that wants for pleasure and attention.

Nieddu's gesture came of the same mysterious, irresistible urge to make things better for other people. For a relative, for a stranger: the urge to make things better was in our marrow.

The most important job anyone can ever have is being a mother.

The love of the bible will show itself in a believer's readiness to bear evil as well as to do good. It will make him patient under provocation, forgiving when injured, meek when unjustly attacked, quiet when slandered. It will make him hear much, put up with much and look over much, submit often and deny himself often, all for the sake of peace.

True charity never envies others when they prosper, nor rejoices in the calamities of others when they are in trouble.

Depend on it; there is no surer road to unhappiness than always having our own way. To have our wills checked and denied is a blessed thing for us; it makes us value enjoyments when they come. To be indulged perpetually is the way to be made selfish, and selfish people and spoiled children are seldom happy.

Because I'm not doing it so people will think I'm great. It needs to be done, I can do it, so I do, and I don't want people making a big deal out of it." Kira realized that her mouth was hanging open and closed it. "You sound like my mother. And my father. Which I never expected to say to you.

Real love is hard. Forgetting yourself for another. Love is like fighting uphill against all of your worst instincts.

My father always said that false love is an attempt to force another person to be subjugated to your own illusion, to make that person nothing but a part of you that you can direct and control. But real love means the other person's illusion is more important than yours. You put them first. Like you put me first.

Jason slumped over, his eyes closed. "Gotta save lives," he mumbled. "Gotta save people." Opening his eyes, he began working off his own boots.

The truth is that our wellbeing is dependent on our giving love. It is not about what comes back; it is about what goes out!

He gives no best who gives most; but he gives most who gives best. ~Arthur Warwick

God cannot be everywhere, so he made mothers. Arab Proverb

Sé amable de manera indiscriminada y realiza bellos actos sin sentido

I'm prepared to put you ahead of me for the rest of my life.

Remember how unimportant you are because that knowledge will gain you more respect than someone who thinks the world revolves around them.

Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in the totality of this pain and are called upon to meet it in compassion and joy instead of self-pity.

Selfless men wind up in neglected graves.

Love is the most abused word in history. It is, simply, caring more for others than you do for yourself.

What was love, anyway? he mused. She said it was caring, caring more about someone else than about yourself.