Quotes About Selflessness

I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not--more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

T 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, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much. Daphne Rose Kingma 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.

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

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

'True love' isn't so much a dreamy feeling that you have as it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially --even, or perhaps especially, when you don't feel like it.

...Him that I love, I wish to be free--even from me

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away.

God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

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

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Love is its own reward.

Charity consists not so much on HOW MUCH WE GIVE to the person but on HOW MUCH WE KEEP FOR OURSELVES

No lance have I, in joust or fight, To splinter in my lady's sight; But, at her feet, how blest were I For any need of hers to die!

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Love that is hoarded moulds at lastUntil we know some dayThe only thing we ever haveIs what we give away.

If you love someone you would be willing to give up everything for them, but if they loved you back theyd never ask you to.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.