Quotes About Selflessness

Cooper shook his head. "The things we do for our children." Natalie managed a thin, tight smile. "When do you have to go?" "Soon. I want to see the kids first." "Do you want to… you could stay. The night.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

In real love, you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

The river never drinks its own water. The tree never tastes its own fruit. The field never consumes its own harvest. They selflessly strive for the well-being of all those around them. —Mewari proverb, India

Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.

As a devout Baptist, she believed it was a sin to pray for anything for yourself. You ought to pray only for strength to bear whatever the Lord saw fit to send you, she thought. I was never able to follow this advice, for although I would often feel a sense of uneasiness over the tone of my prayers, I was the kind of person who prayed frantically-"Please, God, please, please, PLEASE let Ross MacVey like me better than Mavis.

Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.

Chi ti ama c'è sempre, c'è prima di te, prima di conoscerti

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

His love for her was a gift he gave her daily, expecting nothing in return. He walked at her side, his love for her a torch to guide her footsteps along the dark path she walked.

The need exists. I serve the need. After me the need will exist and the need will be served. Let me do well what has and will be done as well by others. Let me take on the role and then let it go.

I have said before, says the Soul, that I lack nothing, because my beloved has from all time sufficient, 2 out of his just nobility, and will have enough for evermore. What then should I lack? I do not love myself, or him, or his works, 3 except only for him. And what he has, which I do not have and shall not have, is more my own than what I do and shall have in my possession from him himself.

We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.

Service is what life is all about.

He who thinks less about himself leads a comfortable life.

You can love a person for walking the same roads as you every dusk or dawn. You can love a person a lot by teaching him to love people, thus himself. You can love someone like no one has ever loved or will ever love them, but you can't ask anyone to love you.

Blessed the geniuses who know that egomania is not a duty.

Si quiero ser libre para amar tengo que liberarme de mi egoísmo, de mi sensualidad, de mi avaricia, del consumismo, de mi afán por coleccionar likes.

Frodo emprendió su búsqueda por amor: para salvar del desastre, a sus propias expensas, si podía, al mundo que él conocía; y también con completa humildad, reconociendo que era del todo inadecuado para la tarea. Su verdadero compromiso consistía tan solo en hacer lo que pudiera, tratar de hallar un camino y avanzar por tanto por él como la fuerza de su mente y su cuerpo lo permitía. Es lo que hizo»[11]

En el mundo en que vivimos, con sus luces y sus sombras, afirmar que uno se realiza con el don sincero de sí —siguiendo las huellas de Jesús— significa ciertamente ir a contracorriente. Son muchas las voces que se alzan con una propuesta contraria: "Piensa en ti mismo, no te compliques la vida, vive para ti". Pareciera que el darse a los demás nos quitase la libertad de hacer lo que nos da la gana.

Quien se encierra en sí mismo para custodiar su libertad se convierte en esclavo de su propia pequeñez, mientras que quien se olvida de sí mismo para darse a los demás ensancha su libertad y ayuda a liberar a los demás: quien conserve su vida la perderá, mientras quien pierde su vida la ganará (cfr. Mt 10, 39).

Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire.