Quotes about Selflessness

All I know is, unselfishness is the only moral principle, said Jessica Pratt, the noblest principle and a sacred duty and much more important than freedom. Unselfishness is the only way to happiness. I would have everybody who refused to be unselfish shot. To put them out of their misery. They can't be happy anyway.

It's not about you.

Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.

Do not expect human beings to reward you, don't even think about it, just LOVE, because you know at the end of the day it will be God who will give you the reward.

Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.

To love is to will the good of the other.

The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.

If you need encouragement, give it. If you need love, give it.Whatever you need, give it away.

He said "Love...as I have loved you." We cannot love too much.

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.