Selflessness Quotes

“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.”

“The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.”

“To be a child is to be other-centered.”

“When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.”

“For my own part I do not wish to be free, yet I should be glad if others, especially the young negroes, were to be free.”

“The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.”

“Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.”

“When you're a mother, you're not the center of your own universe. You are a planet to your children.”

“Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.”

“In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.”

“Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.”

“The only sin is selfishness.”

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”

“Charity is the gift of ourselves.”

“Called a good-for-nothing by everyone, not praised by anyone, not a burden to anyone, such a person I want to be.”

“We must not only give what we have; we must also give what we are.”

“At least once in your life, you should forget yourself for someone, not for results, not for company, not for ownership, just for meeting you in my most beautiful years.”

“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.”

“The nature of love is to give, not to get.”

“We played for the song. We didn't play for ourselves.”