Quotes About Selflessness

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Real love would not take more than it gave. It would not be selfish.

But in her seventy and more years, she had learned that the risks taken for others gave the greatest rewards.

I know I am capable of loving to the full capacity, of not being frightened of loving too much, of giving myself up and over

If they could not understand the words about Jesus then we Christians should show them what He was like by the way we lived. I remembered He had said, 'If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.' So this was the beginning of what I called 'walking the extra mile'. There seemed to be a lot of Christians who did not mind walking one, not many who could be bothered to walk two, and no one who wanted to walk three. Those in need that I met seemed to need a marathon.

If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.

I cannot respond to the call, the request, the obligation, or even the love of another, without sacrificing the other other, the other others

La atracción por la utilidad es tan irresistible, que vemos personas dispuestas a todo por el placer de dar sus comodidades a quienes se les metió en la cabeza que no podrían vivir sin su auxilio.

Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

ja" sa prejavuje a zárove? obetuje, pretože je dávané, tiahnuté mimo seba v onej extáze, ktorou je tvorba, zomiera samé sebe, aby žilo v diele, vo ve?kej pokore, vydáva sa bez obrany!

If you think you are big, you become small. If you know you are nothing, you become unlimited. That's the beauty of being a human being.

I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man.

I so despise a man who blows his own horn, that I go to the other extreme.

Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth

Sympathy is bliss; in it is revealed the highest, purest blessedness. It is divine, for in its reciprocal light all thought of self is lost, and there remains only the pure joy of oneness with others.

When a man is rescued from selfish desire his mind is unencumbered, and he is free to work for humanity.

Joy cannot remain with the selfish; it is wedded to Love.

Always say to yourself, I'd rather be healthy than right. Because the infection of someone so wounded will spread to you if you engage.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Blessed are you when you pray for others. Shame on you when you pray out of selfishness and greed (311).

Only selfish people are negative, Angel.

Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.

Self-seeking breeds loneliness; self-forgetfulness breeds fullness.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.