Quotes About Selflessness

To live without love for others is to live in aridity, to be self-serving and fruitless. To live without understanding is to live without sense or purpose. To live without awareness is to live as the deaf, blind and dumb in a world of vibrant light and sound.

Love never says, 'I love you, do you love me?' It always says; 'I love you and that is all'..

We can give only as much love as we were given ourselves.

When we practice loving, kindness and compassion, we are the first ones to profit.

Some of us do so much to make others happy. Sad thing is, some of us dont even know someone that would do the same for us.

Let ego die and let love live. Ego kills but love heals. Lets love, live and heal. Surely life deserves the best.

You can always give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.

Loving someone means you only want the best for them, even if it means swallowing the sad reality that the best just isn't you.

The more we keep our mind on ourselves and our wants, the more unhappy we become. God wants us to love others and meet their needs.

You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.

The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else in a manner that is not about your desire to possess them, but to be with them, to be in union and communion.

As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.

Ako povrediš nekog drugog,povredio si sebe. Ako pomogneš drugome,pomažeš sebi. Krv i kost nalaze se u svim ljudima. Razlikujemo se po srcu i nameri.

All the joy the world contains has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains has come through wanting pleasure for oneself. —Shantideva, ninth-century Indian mystic

For centuries, the image of the loving woman has been associated with sacrifice and the denial of one's own needs to take care of others. Because women are socialized to view the caretaking of others as their highest duty, they often learn to ignore their own needs.

A não-violência significa permitirmos que venha à tona aquilo que existe de positivo em nós e que sejamos dominados pelo amor, respeito, compreensão, gratidão, compaixão e preocupação com os outros, em vez de o sermos pelas atitudes egocêntricas, egoístas, gananciosas, odientas, preconceituosas, suspeitosas e agressivas que costumam dominar nosso pensamento.

Our sanctification does not depend upon changing what we do, but in doing for God's sake what we normally do for our own sake. It is sad to see how many people mistake the means for the end, addicting themselves to religious works, which they perform very imperfectly because of their human or selfish motives.

But there's a difference between being an achiever and a leader. Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.

But the higher up you go in the organization, the more you need to make other people winners and not make it about winning yourself.

It's not about you. It's about what other people think of you.