Selfless Quotes

Easter is the invulnerable tale of utter selflessness where at an inestimable cost God did for us what He did not need done for Himself. And that kind of ‘doing’ happens every day.

The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.

My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for.

Never mind the rule, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all,' because that's not the route to take. Instead, look into the mirror and say those things to yourself. Then yell those things at yourself. And multiply how much that hurts by 10. And decide, should I still say these things? And walk away.

You shouldn’t live for yourself alone but you must also learn to live the Christian life

Family and friends become oppressors the moment they teach you that loyalty is more important than what is done to people outside your social circle. What they are really saying is this: Save yourself because God is more interested in an intact family or social circle that looks righteous, rather than you being a person of integrity that has compassion for others. It is this absurdity that teaches the wrong version of God and creates the next generation of "me" centered individuals.

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.

You will know it is love not when you think about them all the time or want to be with them, but when you worry about them and you want their approval and happiness.

Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.

Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.

How much pain a person detains may be proportionate to the pain they spare others when they'd rather hurt than hurt another.

If the baser instinct of rampant self-preservation adamantly refuses to surrender itself to the infinitely greater call of self-sacrifice, in attempting to save our lives we will have in reality completely destroyed our lives.

We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.

In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.

If you help someones bank account rise But you can't help their heart feel... Really, what is your value?

Being selfless isn't bad. It is a very rare quality.

My mistakes were because I was selfless. I wanted to complete someone else, I didn’t think about completing myself.

Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.

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.

Detachment is not the absence of emotion, it is the process of becoming one with the Oneness that is the Universe. To be detached, is to realize that the fullness of all there is, is too much to react to with just one emotion, one thought, or any bias. To be detached, is to acknowledge all, without owning any of it. To be detached, is to summon forth the whole entirety of understanding, to the fragment that is the void.

Your ability to see will never broaden when you only see yourself.

An "eye" on the vision is more important than an "I" on the vision.