Quotes about Selflessness
Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.
— Henri Nouwen
Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego
— John Keats
What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.
— St. Basil
Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
True love is an act of total surrender.
— Paulo Coelho
Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.
— Mother Teresa
How much love did you put into what you did?
— Mother Teresa
Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.
— Pope Francis
If I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary's love
— Amy Carmichael
Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, 'What does it matter.'
— Amy Carmichael
When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
— John of the Cross