Quotes About Selflessness

You can't marry an ungenerous man; there's no joy in his soul.

So far as I can tell, most worthwhile pleasures on this earth slip between gratifying another and gratifying oneself.

He has, Agnes sees, done what any father would wish to do, to exchange his child's suffering for his own, to take his place, to offer himself up in his child's stead so that the boy might live. She will say all this to her husband, later, after the play has ended, after the final silence has fallen, after the dead have sprung up to take their places in the line of players at the edge of the stage.

She would try anything, she would do anything. She would open her own veins, her own body cavity, and give him her blood, her heart, her organs, if it would do the slightest good.

He has, Agnes sees, done what any father would wish to do, to exchange his child's suffering for his own, to take his place, to offer himself up in his child's stead so that the boy might live.

The good to others kindness show, And from them no return exact; The best and greatest men, they know, Thus ever nobly love to act.*

The ego wants to own every­thing; this denies the invinci­bility of surrender, the hand­maid­en of love.

President means Chief Servant.

I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours.

No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.

Jesu Liebe, das ist die Liebe, die keinen Schmerz, keinen Verzicht, kein Leiden scheut, wenn es dem anderen hilft.

If I'm called on to shed my blood, it doesn't matter because it's for the good of everyone else.

Philosophy invites man out of the vainness of selfishness; out of the sorrow of ignorance and the despair of worldliness; out of the travesty of ambition and the cruel clutches of greed; out of the red hell of hate and the cold tomb of dead idealism.

I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.

No és el mateix, Domènec. Jo sacrifico la meva persona, i per això tinc dret a sacrificar els qui estimo. Tu, en canvi, sacrifiques els qui dius que estimes sense sacrificar-te tu mateix.

Jo ja havia comprès que sempre cal actuar a despit dels qui no s'ho mereixen, que cal sacrificar-se pels altres, àduch pels qui us trairan; que allò que compta és la propia noblesa, no la traïció dels altres.

y el amor es así, embellece a quien logra amar sin nada esperar a cambio.

In your quest to succeed and make money, don't forget to do something for others.

to become a saint one had to suffer much, seek out always the most perfect thing to do, and forget self.

without love all works are nothing,

My mortifications consisted in breaking my will, always so ready to impose itself on others, in holding back a reply, in rendering little services without any recognition, in not leaning my back against a support when seated, etc., etc. It was through the practice of these nothings that I [15]prepared myself to become the fiancée of Jesus,

God made me [32r°] feel that true glory is that which will last eternally, and to reach it, it isn't necessary to perform striking works but to hide oneself and practice virtue in such a way that the left hand knows not what the right is doing.62

croyais que l'on aimait adulte comme on avait été aimé enfant, je me trompais, le véritable amour consiste à donner ce dont on a manqué, sans retenue ni crainte

C'est lorsque l'on donne du peu que l'on a que l'on donne vraiment.