Quotes About Selflessness

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

When you deeply love someone, you'll do a lot of difficult, challenging, or painful things for him or her that you would never do for anyone else.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

It takes a courageous man to sacrifice his greatest delight to ensure that other people gain happiness.

The greatest sacrifice is when you sacrifice your own happiness for the sake off someone else.

I sacrifice not that you should love me; I sacrifice because I love you.

Giving is a great teacher of love, self-worth, kindness and selflessness.

The value of your life has nothing to do with how much money you earn; it is determined by what you give to others.

Be like a Candle which burns itself to give light to others.

Don't look for the reasons before helping others, the fact that we all are human is sufficient enough!!

Parents are the most selfless people who do everything in their power for their kids just out of love and affection without expecting anything.

Love is all about sacrificing your happiness for others. Just to bring a smile on their face! Love is forgetting that you're in pain, and try to help them to go through their pain. Love is caring about them, not caring about yourself.

Keeping a smile on your face when inside you feel like dying, for the sake of supporting others is Strength.

A man should act not for himself but be ready to lend a helping hand to others in their need.

Sometimes, the girl who's always there for everyone else needs someone there for her..

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm ... As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

I Believe that true friends talk without intention, give without reason, care without expectation, love without condition, and will be there through thick and thin.

I've learned... that even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you, you will find the strength to help.

A teacher's profession is the one true profession which asks for nothing in return, but only gives, and gives till the very end.

To be free is to put justice, truth and service to others over and above our personal gain or our need for recognition, power, honor and success. When we cling to personal power and success, when we are afraid of loosing social status, then we are in some way denying our humanity; we become slaves to our own needs, we are not free.

Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

Return something not for the possibility of a reward, but for the joy of giving a gift which you did not have to pay for.

I've given myself away, the whole of me, every part.

I didn't want children because I didn't want them to suffer. I had a dog, which suffered enough. I don't even want a goldfish or a turtle. I have a desert plant in my house that needs a glass of water maybe once a year, which I can deliver.