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Oh, my child, can you not see? You must let go of yourself. For if a seed wishes to live, it must sacrifice itself and grow outward, not inward. — Seth Adam Smith

Maybe there is some Abnegation in everyone, even if they don't know it. — Veronica Roth

Is it not through her selflessness that she is able to perfect herself? — Lao-Tzu

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness. — Steven Pressfield

You may think the actions that mean the most are the ones we get credit for, but I happen to believe they mean more when people aren't aware. — Marilyn Grey

When YOU Say YOU Love Me, I Don't Hear With My Ears Or Read YOUR Lips As I Already Know That By Looking In YOUR Eyes ... — Muhammad Imran Hasan

I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business. — Muhammad Yunus

There's beauty in selflessness. There's honor in putting aside your fears to make sure the ones you love are taken care of. — Cassia Leo

I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began — C.S. Lewis

If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life. — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace. — Christofer Drew

To lead solely on the behalf of those being led is the utter pinnacle of fatherhood, and it is sad that so few ever stand on the summit. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion! — Susan Sontag

Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature. — Mata Amritanandamayi

There's nothing wrong with helping someone without a cost. Especially if there's no end return. — Solange Nicole

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis Of Assisi

Love is selflessness, Self is lovelessness. — Sathya Sai Baba

A dog has one aim in life... to bestow his heart. — J.R. Ackerley

I am a nobody until I make somebody worthy for everybody. — Amit Abraham

Service of self is best developed in dealings of service to others. — Tyler J. Hebert

Selflessness is the highest goal of good leaders. — Todd Stocker

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness. — Robert E. Ornstein

A selfish life isn't God's purpose for you — Sunday Adelaja

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Witnessing a selfless act brings tears to remind us how we should be treating others. — Bryant McGill

And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the tale might live? God of course. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

And remember as in all of us, it is only your capacity for wickedness that makes selflessness possible. — Danielle Paige

You don't go to church to find God; you bring him with you - attitude. — Shannon L. Alder

Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism. — Ronald Reagan

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in. — Criss Jami

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity. — Ayn Rand

DeadPool reminds me for some other films which are sci-fi, like Selflessness and Mr.Nobody....But the speech is awful it must be fixed! — Deyth Banger

A body is simply a package for the true gifts inside. And you are full of gifts. Selflessness, kindness, compassion. All the things that matter. — Colleen Hoover

Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative. — Frans De Waal

I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose. — Thomas Hardy

Loving others isn't about us at all. And until that sinks in, we'll never be able to love the way Christ truly loved. — Jarrid Wilson

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy! — Joyce Meyer

Being selfless is the biggest wiring mistake in us. — Himmilicious

When we're constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks. — Seth Adam Smith

Our compassion and acts of selflessness take us to the deeper truths. — Mata Amritanandamayi

selflessness is the only antidote to evil. It provides the light that destroys the dark. — Michael A. Stackpole

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles. — Criss Jami

What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness. — Veronica Roth

When a leader replaces the value of selfless service with selfish ambition they have officially regressed back into a boss. — Noel DeJesus

Some gifts of friendship cannot be earned, no matter how hard we try to live up to them. — Janny Wurts

Of course love is blind; it keeps me blind to myself. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Many believed what they were told: that the welfare of the entire kingdom depended on their selflessness. — Margaret Atwood

To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love. — Criss Jami

Making oneself large involves intentionally making oneself small. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Selfishness is easy to find. Selflessness is a much rarer beast. — Stewart Stafford

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. — Dalai Lama XIV

The highest form of love is patriotism and selflessness — Thabiso Monkoe

When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery. — John Oliver

When does someone love you enough to put you before himself? Had I done so with Michiko? — Deborah Baldwin

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside ... — Martin Amis

It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help. — Jonathan Edwards

In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self. — Mahavira

Even when we speak of selflessness, the mind goes to "me." We think, "I'm selfless," but everything is selfless. — Sakyong Mipham

Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart. — Emily Saliers

We are alive in all our layers of self and selflessness - individuals becoming one. — Jay Woodman

Selfishness is the absence of selflessness — Thabiso Monkoe

We should be selfless in our practice as believers — Sunday Adelaja

SHE Is A Wonderful Romantic Poem With Billions of Lines. Even If I Could, I Wouldn't Finish Reading HER In My Entire Life ... — Muhammad Imran Hasan

In searching for himself, he had come to understand that he was defined by selflessness — Soroosh Shahrivar

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself. — Criss Jami

Loving someone selflessly would mean sharing their happiness whether you are part of that happiness or not. — Sandhya Jane

Vanity is found in the most unlikely places: in combination with kindness, and selflessness, and generosity. — Ernesto Sabato

We just can't shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it's also fun. — Claire Danes

The mythic journey is always about selflessness. — Chris Pine

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. — Lloyd Alexander

All too often those who extol most loudly the virtues of selflessness turn out to be motivated by greed and ambition. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

You don't lose yourself being selfless - you find yourself. — Seth Adam Smith

(The truth is that real life-change and the joy of being who you are designed to be always results in selflessness, not selfishness.) — Jon Acuff

Give until it hurts. — Corazon Cojuangco Aquino

Moral living sometimes demands difficult choices. It requires selflessness. — Billy Graham

The noblest life is the one laid down for another. — Jessica Khoury

Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Faith doesn't go unnoticed. Just like selflessness - it's always noticed, always rewarded, and should never be taken for granted. — Rachel Van Dyken

How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own! — Anne Bronte

Redemption becomes possible when we strive to find selflessness, conscience, and a capacity to love within ourselves where before there was none. — Jim Ford

True life is the understanding and support of other people, of selflessness, of charity, of kindness. — Peter F. Hamilton

Its not what the universe gives us that matters, but what we give the universe — Lauren Myracle

When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed. — Dalai Lama XIV

Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can't hear it. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Like editing, gardening requires infinite patience; it requires an essential selflessness, and optimism. — Joyce Carol Oates

You said it was a sacrifice. Coming from me, it's a gift. — Becky Allen

Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer. — Arthur Miller

For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration. — Natalie Merchant

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others. — Dalai Lama XIV

The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness. — Eric Hoffer

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Minimalism in the service of others is a logical extension of the same ethos of selflessness. — Joshua Becker

The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness — Esther Hicks

Day and night. Give and take. But never to die. Each have their time. — Zechariah Barrett

Candor values honesty, but our faction, Abnegation, values selflessness. — Veronica Roth

Even the most kindest person in the world, can be the most cruelest person. — PureDragonWolf

So next time your selflessness is praised in front of others, beware: making sacrifices for others makes it easier for them to sacrifice you. — Daniel M. Wegner