Quotes About Selflessness

To do it all and deprive others of doing is...a misguided notion.

In Ephesians 5:28, we're told that he who loved his wife loves himself. In effect, a good marriage happens when the happiness of the other is essential to your own happiness. We might say that a good marriage is a contest of generosities. 'How wonderful that it's possible to ensure our own happiness by seeking the happiness of another.

what makes and ordinary person heroic is when they give up the thing they want most

The Simplest Act Can Change the World Growing up in a cold and distant family, I have struggled my entire life with letting people into my life and my heart. I wake up each morning telling myself to do one small act of kindness for another person. I have seen how even the simplest act can change someone's day. If all I can give that day is a smile, that is enough. When we are feeling at our worst, nothing can make us feel better than trying to make someone else feel better. —Sue

Remember, you must never use your position to lord it over the heathen. Instead you must humble yourself and earn their respect though your own quiet faith and the power of the Holy Spirit. The missionary must seek nothing for himself, no seat of honor or hope of fame. Like the cabhorse in London, each of you must wear blinkers that blind you to every danger and to every snare and conceit. You must be content to suffer, to die, and to be forgotten. -Count Zinzendorf

He never considered himself anything special. He was just a man who tried to honor God and help people in need. In the end, achieving those two simple goals made him a very special person to countless people around the world.

Exist? o limit? pân? la care un om poate oferi, f?r? s? primeasc? niciodat?, nimic în schimb.

Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free.

But Mari, I just don't think I can justify a show-offish wedding. I've never been that sort of girl. I'm the 'Let's go to a third-world country and take care of orphans' kind of girl, you know?

I've got you figured out," he said. "You'll forge ahead and act like everything's okay when it's not. You're the kind to just keep going, to make sure everyone else is okay, even when you're not.

Of what use to humanity, I ask myself, is a man who cannot see beyond his own hurt?

I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.

Seeing herself do this, Elise realizes she always knew she would give the fruit away, at this exact moment, to that girl, with this exact feeling in her heart.

Don't shave my head to make your wig of selfishness. Shave it because you care.

Yesterday I saved a baby, a boy, a man, and an old man from death, and all by simply not impregnating anybody. But I don't consider myself a hero. Merely heroic, and also unable to reach any of my lady friends on the phone.

I think if I could be any superhero, it'd probably be my mom... but I don't think I'd look too good in high heels, so it's not gonna happen.

placing family needs above individual desires,

The more ready you are to give yourselves to God and to others, the more you will discover the authentic meaning of life.

Love is expressed most perfectly through sacrifice, and this is why you will never find a real love story that lacks it.

It could be said that he didn't make time to enter prayer. Rather, he made time for the sake of others to come out of it.

If you want a true man, you need to know what one looks like. For starters, a guy cannot be considered a man unless he treats a woman with dignity. When a boy learns how to forget himself for the good of another, he becomes a man. This transition does not occur at puberty; it comes when he learns the meaning of sacrifice.

In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

The best cure for one's own grief and pain was worrying about the well-being of someone else.