451 Quotes About Selflessness

As you approach this stage's final veil, Kingdoms and wealth, substance and water fail;Withdraw into yourself, and one by oneGive up the things you own--when this is done,Be still in selflessness and pass beyondAll thoughts of good and evil; break this bond,And as it shatters you are worthy ofOblivion, the Nothingness of love.

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

I think sometimes we gravitate toward broken people, not ’cause we want to fix them, but ’cause we want to fix ourselves. The line between selflessness and selfishness is thin and intangible. It’s imaginary. We can’t see it. People project their problems onto other people’s problems. It happens all the time. We see ourselves in each other. We can’t help it. It’s human nature.

After everything they had been through the past few days and all the selfless acts of bravery, it felt really nice to do something selfish.

You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.

Love emancipates you from prison of envy and jealousyIt makes u invisible to hatred and oblivious of self

But in her seventy and more years, she had learned that the risks taken for others gave the greatest rewards.

By the touch of an unselfish soul, even the regular sidewalk becomes holy.

Be a ruler of your mind and a servant of your heart.