Selflessness Quotes

When you know someone close to you who are quiet or smaller or missing, seek them out, they may need to be found again. It is most beautiful to turn off our ego and feel true empathy for others. Compassion, sympathy, kindness, empathy, selflessness, etc. are the biggest signs of a person with a good soul and a big heart!

Until you believe in yourself, it does not matter how much you believe in God

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.

Day and night. Give and take. But never to die. Each have their time.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

Your calling is buried in your background and life experience

I’m convinced we have each been endowed with a beautiful heart. We may not always see it. We may not even believe it. But it’s a gift that came with birth and, every time we act selflessly, it grows a little.

Invest in your purpose and land of promise

She also keeps talking about the Billie Holiday record she bought for me. And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have to listen to Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. It almost feels like of the three things involved: Mary Elizabeth, me, and the great things, only the first one matters to Mary Elizabeth. I don't understand that. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.

You need to do an inventory of yourself to discover your calling and purpose

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.

Because your character is always full of ambition, the news of my being locked up must have been much harder on you than it was on me. When I was arrested, it was almost a relief to know that I could now experience what you were experiencing yourself. I am so afraid that they are breaking your spirit.

Reproduce yourself and fulfill your calling

One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.

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

It is impossible to pause, stop or delay time

[Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner belonged to] that small army of brave people who made it their duty, without thought of themselves or hope or expectation of reward, to strive for unpopular causes.[Chapman Cohen on the death of noted freethinker and peace advocate Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner]

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

Whenever we take the focus off ourselves and move it outward, we benefit. Life's most fortunate ironies are that what's best for the long run is best now, and selflessness serves our interests far better than selfishness. The wider our circle of considerations, the more stable we make the world—and the better the prospects for human experience and for all we might wish. The core message of each successive widening: we are one. The geometry of the human voyage is not linear; it's those ripples whose circles expand to encompass self, other, community, Life, and time.

SHE Is A Wonderful Romantic Poem With Billions of Lines. Even If I Could, I Wouldn't Finish Reading HER In My Entire Life....

Even the most kindest person in the world, can be the most cruelest person.

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

It is certain that there can be no work in political economy on any other than an altruistic basis... If our work is to retain any meaning it can only be informed by this: concern for the future, for those who will come after us.

Your destiny is connected with your calling

Do not seek popularity or self-affirmation; just show people God’s love and mercy, and help them to prosper and succeed. Simply serve God

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 limitation we have is the limitation of the mind

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

Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause -- the readiness to give and not ask for anything in return, the unquestioning willingness to lose everything, even if that loss is as something as precious as life itself.

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.

Money does not determine our worth

Think long and hard whether you have reached that mature stage of selflessness for this one you think you love so much. The love you enjoy will be the best thing that ever happened to you, but it will cost you your independence.... The responsibility of marriage and family demands time, and when we cheat on that, we rob ourselves of the investment returns.

...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.

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

She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?

Life was given to be lived for God and people

If we lack the proper antidotes of emptiness and bodhichitta, we will not be able to control our minds when frightening appearances manifest. It is considered a sign of progress in this practice if we go unconscious, and then, when we wake up, have forgotten our names and whose bodies we have! This is the ceasing of clinging to the body.

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.

You have to be pragmatic, purposeful and goal-oriented to be fully effective

Gain great values by converting your time

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

Greatness is the quality of time converted into production or value

Doing things for yourself (self-preservation) are ok in in small doses and when necessary but over-burdening you life with your own self will weaken your heart, soul connectivity with others

We all have the potential to be great and the seed of greatness

When in doubt as to what you should do, err on the side of 'giving.

Give until it hurts.

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.

Living in active consciousness is being in the “here and now

You have to discover your area of talent to be effective

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

Purposefully dedicating time into developing yourself is one of the keys to being effective in life

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.

You can discover your calling through the eyes of others

The amount of value produced at a certain period depends on the level of focus used to attain it

Be strategic and purposeful in whatever you do

The noblest life is the one laid down for another.

What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.

No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.