selfless-love

The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly is always the love that is not returned.

Only God can give us a selfless love for others, as the Holy Spirit changes us from within. This is one reason we must receive Christ, for apart from His Spirit we can never be freed from the chains of selfishness, jealousy, and indifference. Will others see Christ's love in your life today?

When it's about your life, it's time to be selfish.

I realized during some of the darkest moments of my life, that the most beautiful and precious happiness in the world is the Joy of Giving.

There's more than what the eye can see, the heart can love, and the brain can understand.

He was my entire world. He still is. My best friend, lover, partner in crime and my other soul. But he didn__ agree. A person isn__ supposed to be your entire world, he said. But he__ wrong. When you love yourself, you love others. When you find yourself, you find others. When you create your world and it__ thriving, you create others. And I built an entire world for him. For us. As he once built for me.

...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.

Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just a general of forgotten battles compared with the queen who paid for Shakespeare's meals and beer in the tavern. The statesman who in his time freed the slaves, even he has a few enemies in posterity, whereas the literary patron has none. We thank Gaius Maecenas for the nobility of soul we attribute to Virgil; but he isn__ blamed for the selfishness and egocentricity that the poet possessed. The patron creates 'literature through altruism,' something not even the greatest genius can do with a pen.

The worship of God should be done without expecting anything in return

Love is selfish yet a selfless feeling.

I__ convinced we have each been endowed with a beautiful heart. We may not always see it. We may not even believe it. But it__ a gift that came with birth and, every time we act selflessly, it grows a little.

The most benevolent souls are the one's who have had to drink some of life's worst poisons, yet protected others in their lives from ever having to taste them.

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.

Being a samurai is all about selfless service and if the lord abuses the servant, it is no longer a situation of service; it becomes the situation of a victim. It is never acceptable for a samurai to be a victim. It is never acceptable to allow a lord to abuse you or rob you of your dignity. In such a situation, it is acceptable to walk away.

A mature person reaps joy in the commonplace acts of living, appreciates the serenity of just being, while balancing the responsibilities that come naturally about when deeply immersed in family and community affairs. Directing their attention outward, assisting other people in their troubled times, while denying themselves the indulgence of self-absorption frees a person__ bidding mind from a jumble of discordant thoughts, wants, and unholy bequests.