Quotes About Selflessness

Gazing up at him from under a curl, I asked sincerely, "How can you be so thoughtful and generous?" He seemed to stand taller. "I live by one law: what my wife wants, my wife gets. Even if she doesn't yet know what she wants.

But there is another realm where we can always find something true, the fireside of a friend, where we shed our little conceits and find warmth and understanding, where small selfishnesses are impossible and where wine and books and talk give a different meaning to existence. There we have made something that no falseness can touch. We are at home.

Everyone wants to be worth a little sacrifice.

I am a mother and mothers don't have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.

A warrior believes in an end she can't see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me.

Fortunately money is not known in the Land of Oz at all. We have no rich, and no poor; for what one wishes the others all try to give him, in order to make him happy, and no one in all Oz cares to have more than he can use.

If we used money to buy things with, instead of love and kindness and the desire to please one another, then we should be no better than the rest of the world, declared the Tin Woodman. Fortunately money is not known in the Land of Oz at all. We have no rich, and no poor; for what one wishes the others all try to give him, in order to make him happy, and no one in all Oz cares to have more than he can use.

I wouldn't ask anyone to take this dreadful form, said Woot; it wouldn't be right, you know. I've been a monkey for some time, now, and I don't like it. It makes me ashamed to be a beast of this sort when by right of birth I'm a boy; so I'm sure it would be wicked to ask anyone else to take my place. They

You can begin really looking for a relationship . . . when you can (appreciate) the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.

When no one is selfless in a relationship, there is war. When one is selfless, there is peace. When both are selfless, there is joy.

It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.

Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship.

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others

There is no higher religion than human service.

But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

It's amazing how much you can get done if you don't worry about who gets the credit.

One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.

To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.

You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.