Quotes about Selflessness

The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him.

We do not exist for ourselves.

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving.

The man who lives for himself is a failure; the man who lives for others has achieved true success.

To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.

Success is about us. Significance is about others.

When you help others, your own troubles aren't as heavy. In fact, you can fold them like a handkerchief and place them in your pocket. They're still there, but they're not the only thing you carry.

There are those who insist that mothers are born with love for their children and place them before all other things, including their own needs and desires. This was not the case with us.

There are those who insist that mothers are born with love for their children and place them before all other things, including their own needs and desires.

People who think nonviolence is easy don't realize that it's a spiritual discipline that requires a great deal of strength, growth, and purging of the self so that one can overcome almost any obstacle for the good of all without being concerned about one's own welfare.

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Many people are unhappy and are not experiencing life to its fullest because they've closed their hearts to compassion, they are motivated by only what they want and what they think they need. They rarely do anything for anybody else unless they have an ulterior goal in mind. They are self-involved and self-centered.