Quotes about Selflessness

Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding effects on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Every day do a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face.

Let's remember that the only way to find happiness is not to expect gratitude, but to give for the joy of giving.

There is no limit to what a man can do, or where he can go, if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage.

There are thousands of people like her, people who are ill from "ingratitude," loneliness, and neglect. They long to be loved; but the only way in this world that they can ever hope to be loved is to stop asking for it and to start pouring out love without hope of return.

Christian spiritual formation rests on this indispensable foundation of death to self and cannot proceed except insofar as that foundation is being firmly laid and sustained.

Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

Humility leads to perfect death. Humility means the giving up of self and the taking of the place of perfect nothingness before.

Humble yourself. This is your one duty.

Love is something that has three essential characteristics: 1.) Love arises in people whose lives are already marked by certain qualities of the whole self, chief of which are faith in our all-sufficient God and joyful embracing of death to self. 2.) Love involves an orientation of the whole self toward what is good and right. 3.) Love has amazing, supernatural power for good as it indwells the individual.