Quotes about Selflessness
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
- Anonymous
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything
- Anonymous
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
- Mother Teresa
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
- Mother Teresa
Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?
- Walt Whitman
Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee
- John of the Cross
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Love has a hem to her garment that reaches the very dust. It sweeps the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.
- Mother Teresa
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
- Elbert Hubbard
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
- Elbert Hubbard
The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
- Mother Teresa
Intense love does not measure; it just gives
- Mother Teresa