#selfless

In spite of his mildness and timidity in reproving, every one about him knew that on the exceptional occasions when he chose, he was absolute. He never, indeed, chose to be absolute except on some one else’s behalf. ↗

— George Eliot

#selflessness #life

Even the smallest act of caring for another person is like a drop of water -it will make ripples throughout the entire pond... ↗

— Jessy and Bryan Matteo

#helping-others #love #peace #selflessness #love

if your love is only a will to possess, its not love ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#love

In the beginning, the price of giving great love is risking that it won't be returned. Until you understand, of course, that great love is always returned. With interest. ↗

— Mike Dooley

#true-love #love

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . . ↗

— Martin Amis

#selflessness #love

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless. ↗

— Edward Albert

#selfless #sometimes #you

When I give, I give myself ↗

— Walt Whitman

#love

How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion! ↗

— Susan Sontag

#pretense #self-love #selflessness #love

Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves. ↗

— Stephen Kendrick

#selfishness #selflessness #love

The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea that it should be transitory. In one high bound it has overleaped the massive of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being. Spontaneously and without effort we have fulfilled the law (towards one person) by loving our neighbour as ourselves. It is an image, a foretaste, of what we must become to all if Love Himself rules in us without a rival. It is even (well used) a preparation for that. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#god #love #selflessness #love