Quotes About Selflessness

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.

Love is a beggar who stills begs when one has given him everything

And the tree was happy

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends (John 15:13).

Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous, love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other peoples sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end.

He loved me well: so well he could but die - To show he loved me better than his life; he lost it for me

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude; never selfish, not quick to take offense. There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, and endurance. In a word, there are three things that last forever: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of them all is love.

Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee

I love you when I forget about me.

Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.

The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

There is no greater love than this. There is no greater gift that can ever be given. To be willing to die, so another might live -- there is no greater lover than this.

If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.

Loving is the only sure road out of darkness, the only serum known that cures self-centeredness

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost