Quotes About Selflessness

If you live only for yourself, dying is an especially scary proposition.

Donate to the extent that you don't have food for yourself after feeding the needy.

I always tell my kids to cut a sandwich in half right when you get it, and the first thought you should have is somebody else. You only ever need half a burger.

Enlightenment is the food that eats you.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.

Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it.

They may not deserve forgiveness but I do.

If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.

Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free.

Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine.

Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.

Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.

Freedom is not choosing; that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.

Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself.

Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.