Quotes About Selflessness

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude.

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Love seeketh not itself to please, but for another gives its ease.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

You may give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given; nor how much have you won, but how much have you done; not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed; how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying... . . . It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life happiness, freedom and peace of mind are always attained by giving them to someone else.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

It is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love?s sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward ?love? unselfishly for love?s sake.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,but have not love, I gain nothing. -Corinthians 13:1

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

My nature is love Him. And therefore I love. I do not pray for any-thing. I do not ask for anything. Let Him place me wherever He likes. I must love Him for love?s sake. I can not trade in love.