Quotes About Selflessness

temporary situational emotional high; he is working to produce something much better—eternal joy. The reality is that God has little allegiance to my selfish little wish list. He has not signed on by his grace to deliver to me that catalog of things that I think will make me happy. He has not committed to meet everything I have christened as a need.

We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.

It means that as parents we need to daily remind ourselves that we're called to rescue our children again and again, and we should not resent those moments when that rescue is necessary.

If you fail to carry around with you a heart of gratitude for the love you've been so freely given, it is easy for you not to love others as you should.

Humility is the soil in which mercy for others grows.

There is no investment as poor as investment in the kingdom of self!

If you find more joy in serving God than yourself, you know that grace has entered your door, because only grace has the power to rescue you from you.

I tell you the truth, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life." John 12:24–25.

The most attractive people are those who make others feel attractive. Attractiveness requires an other focus rather than a self-obsession.

Loving means losing control of our schedule, our money, and our time. When we love we cease to be the master and become a servant.

Stop looking for love and start showing it.

most of the problems we think we have stem from too much self-focus rather than too little.

Do what helps others. Refrain from harming others. Transcend your own ignorance, clinging, hate, fear and delusion. This and only this is the dispensation of all the Buddhas.

She had devoted her life, in a practical and unimportant way, trying to prove that fear was evil because it promoted prejudice, that courage was good because it was a sign of selflessness, that ignorance was bad because fear sprang from it, that knowledge was good because the more you knew of the world's complexity the more clearly you saw the insignificance of the part you played.

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta It is a great poverty to decide that a child must die so that you might live as you wish. — Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

Adults must aim to diminish their egocentric and authoritarian attitude toward the child and adopt a passive attitude in order to aid in his devleopment.

When you taste a measure of being able to love and enjoy the people in your life, without having to have any particular response from them, you are tasting bliss. You can move out into life, and you don't have to have your parking ticket stamped by human approval to do it.

Ibn Bassani, a Sufi mystic, all his life prayed, asking God to make his body the size of hell and send him there in the place of the world. I see my Lord Christ having done that for humanity.

If you want to become a saint, live to please others, if you want to become a god, live entirely to please yourself.

they say, he's mine, and you say, all right, all right, he's yours, of course, take him. Nothing matters to me at all. Not me, not my food, not my bread, not my life, and not him either, nothing matters to me." "I ,Tatiana, fight for nothing

What little I had was all for you. It was you who was everybody else's. But I was only yours.

Do you need me to com ewith you? She'll need a stretcher," Kashnikov said. "No she won't," said Alexander. "iI'll carry her myself.

Ti dicono lui è mio e tu dici va bene, va bene, è tuo, certo, prendilo, niente è importante per me. Né me stessa, né il mio pane, né la mia vita, e neanche lui. Io combatto per niente.