Quotes About Selflessness

To love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self.

you shouldn't try to save a drowning woman unless you were ready to drown yourself

entered a kind of trance of not-herselfness.

I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.

I wanted to protect him, which I was sure I could do, even if I could not protect myself.

That's the difference between heaven and hell! In hell we starve! In heaven we feed each other!

Every morning, she'd clean me of my excrement, bathe me, dress me, and see that my hair was combed like a sane man's, even when it meant an elbow to the nose or a broken rib. She polished the blade. She wore my teeth marks on her body like other wives might wear jewelry. The hole didn't' matter. We paid it no attention. We shared a room. She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that's love.

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Any complaints, any grumblings, any disputings or murmurings, any anxieties, any worries, any resentments or anything that hints of a raging torrent of bitterness--these are the things God calls me to die to daily.

Tú, que sentías que amabas demasiado y te creías tan generosa, date cuenta de que solamente le das lo que tú quieres darle, que no te ocupas de saber lo que él necesita, que sólo das por tu necesidad de dar y no por lo bien que le puede hacer a él lo que le estás dando.

If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell.

Si el honor y la sabiduría y la felicidad no son para mí, que sean para otros. Que el cielo exista, aunque mi lugar sea el infierno.

Si el honor y la sabiduría y la felicidad no son para mí, que sean para otros. Que el cielo exista, aunque mi lugar sea el infierno. Que yo sea ultrajado y aniquilado, pero que en un instante, en un ser, Tu enorme Biblioteca se justifique.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

Giving birth is definitely a heroic deed, in that it is the giving over of oneself to the life of another.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Don't worry about me. Go and enjoy yourself. I'll stay here and be miserable.

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.

What kind of love demands the life of another? A child at that?" "Danish love, my sweet. Can't you smell it?

It is easier to give than to receive, is that it? Pride is a sin, Father

Sometimes it's about more than your own happiness. Sometimes you have to think of other people.

The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?