Selflessness Quotes
In india, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.
The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.
Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.
Selflessness implies fun. Its fun to be free. Freedom is inner stillness and not being haunted by your desires, your fears, your aggressive tendencies ... it's being cool.
When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.
The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.
I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in danger, it becomes your first instinct
If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life.
When we're constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks.
I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.
Oh, my child, can you not see? You must let go of yourself. For if a seed wishes to live, it must sacrifice itself and grow outward, not inward.
I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself.
When YOU Say YOU Love Me, I Don't Hear With My Ears Or Read YOUR Lips As I Already Know That By Looking In YOUR Eyes....
...minimalism in the service of others is a logical extension of the same ethos of selflessness.
And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the tale might live? God of course.
I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began
I do two things, " she told me. "I remind myself that it's not all about me. And I focus on the good. There's always a way to find some good.
What is nobler, " she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?
When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.
Its not what the universe gives us that matters, but what we give the universe
She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?
I believe in love―a kind, selfless, unending devotion. I believe it is rare.
For the case that one thinks he has plateaued in life, God has already set yet another peak for him to reach: and a much more challenging peak than his own, one that which is to serve others.
Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can’t hear it.
It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.
No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.
Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens.
SHE Is A Wonderful Romantic Poem With Billions of Lines. Even If I Could, I Wouldn't Finish Reading HER In My Entire Life....
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.
How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!
When you meet a person as good-hearted as a child, don't ever be selfish, just give them your best and you will become great friends.
The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem.