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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have

1. “To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.”

Selflessness, Holiness, Sympathy, Kindness, Morality

Leaders must always put their people before themselves If you

2. “Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.”

Leadership, People, Business, Priority, Selflessness

Through selfless work love of God grows in heart

3. “Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.”

Selflessness, Work, Love, God, Growth

The man who works for others without any selfish motive

4. “The man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.”

Selflessness, Work, Goodness, Service, Motive

I have no disciple I am the servant of the

5. “I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.”

Humility, Service, Devotion, Selflessness, Faith

How dare you talk of helping the world? God alone

6. “How dare you talk of helping the world? God alone can do that. First you must be made free from all sense of self; then the Divine Mother will give you a task to do.”

Service, Selflessness, God, Purpose, Surrender

As for me I consider myself as a speck of

7. “As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee’s feet.”

Humility, Devotion, Selflessness, Surrender, Faith

We really have to understand the person we want to

8. “We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Love, Understanding, Selflessness, Relationships, Compassion

Real love means loving kindness and compassion the kind of

9. “Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Love, Kindness, Compassion, Selflessness, Connection

We do not exist for ourselves alone and it is

10. “We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.”

Love, Selflessness, Compassion, Connection, Purpose

We do not exist for ourselves

11. “We do not exist for ourselves.”

Purpose, Selflessness, Compassion, Human Connection, Divine Will

Love is not a matter of getting what you want

12. “Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.”

Love, Selflessness, Contentment, Relationships, Wisdom

True happiness is found in unselfish Love A love which

13. “True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.”

Happiness, Love, Selflessness, Sharing, Joy

We cannot love ourselves unless we love others and we

14. “We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others.”

Love, Selflessness, Compassion, Balance, Relationships

Love is perfect in proportion to its freedom

15. “Love is perfect in proportion to its freedom.”

Love, Freedom, Perfection, Selflessness, Harmony

We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in

16. “We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.”

Greatness, Humility, Selflessness, Success, Wisdom

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one

17. “Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.”

Love, Selflessness, Devotion, Reward, Compassion

One of the paradoxes of the mystical life is this:

18. “One of the paradoxes of the mystical life is this: that a man cannot enter into the deepest center of himself and pass through that center into God, unless he is able to pass entirely out of himself and empty himself and give himself to other people in the purity of a selfless love.”

Mysticism, Selflessness, God, Inner Journey, Love

A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never

19. “A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy.”

Happiness, Sharing, Selflessness, Love, Fulfillment

The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves

20. “The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.”

Selflessness, Joy, Life, Freedom, Perspective

Humble people can do great things with uncommon perfection because

21. “Humble people can do great things with uncommon perfection because they are no longer concerned about their own interests and their own reputation, and therefore they no longer need to waste their efforts in defending them.”

Humility, Greatness, Selflessness, Integrity, Wisdom

Happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be

22. “Happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found.”

Happiness, Selflessness, Fulfillment, Meaning, Love

The humble person receives praise the way a clean window

23. “The humble person receives praise the way a clean window takes the light of the sun. The truer and more intense the light is, the less you see of the glass.”

Humility, Praise, Light, Wisdom, Selflessness

The beginning of love is to let those we love

24. “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”

Love, Acceptance, Relationships, Selflessness, Understanding

If we are going to love others at all we

25. “If we are going to love others at all, we must make up our minds to love them well. Otherwise our love is a delusion. The first step to unselfish love is the recognition that our love may be deluded. We must first of all purify our love by renouncing the pleasure of loving as an end in itself. As long as pleasure is our end, we will be dishonest with ourselves and with those we love. We will not seek their good, but our own pleasure.”

Love, Selflessness, Truth, Purity, Sacrifice

Love not only prefers the good of another to my

26. “Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.”

Love, Selflessness, Comparison, Devotion, Compassion

Charity is without fear: having given all that it has

27. “Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose.”

Charity, Giving, Selflessness, Courage, Generosity

If ever my life can be of any use to

28. “If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.”

Sacrifice, Devotion, Love, Selflessness, Generosity

Of all the passions love is the only one which

29. “Of all the passions, love is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.”

Love, Passion, Selflessness, Happiness, Devotion

We should give as we would receive cheerfully quickly and

30. “We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.”

Seneca

Generosity, Kindness, Giving, Gratitude, Selflessness