Quotes About Selflessness

Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.

Intense love does not measure; it just gives

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Never consider marrying anyone based solely on material or financial means. Have a pure heart and motives for being with someone and not a goal to use people for your own selfish reasons. It is better to be alone instead of living a luxurious life and wasting time with the wrong person.

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your joy. But if you devote yourself with all your heart to the holy joy of your spouse, you will also be living for your joy and making a marriage after the image of Christ and His church.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. Be a tree, give fruits, flowers, shade to others without expecting anything from others. Whatever you want from others first you have to give that to others. Whatever you give to others, you will be given in return. If you give love, respect to others then surely you will be given love and respect from others. Thats why we should learn to give good things to others.

The purpose of life is not to accumulate but to give. The purpose of life is not to put people down but to lift people up.

God created you to make people happy, to make them feel special and loved. So before you do something for yourself think of what you could do for others.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Thankfulness is difficult to express when one starts with an attitude of entitlement.

True soldiers of hope do not do what they do for glory, fame and to be superior over others, they do what they do because of the love in their heart and soul and for the greater good of mankind, together we salute our true soldiers of hope and may god protect them as they go on their journey.

I could NEVER stop giving God all the praises for he has been better to me than I have been to myself. My worship I owe!

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. -Galatians 5:14

I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.

For me I feel close to the Savior when I can do in a small way for someone else, what He would do if He were there.