#selflessness

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

We sat on the dusty floor like that for what felt like hours, our legs intertwined in the kneeling position. Like the demon and the angel reaching for one another on Jet’s arm, I felt half of everything. Half pure, half used. Locked in a dark, beautiful embrace. One I wouldn’t wish on anyone yet one I wouldn’t ever reverse if given the chance. Not when it had the power to save a life. - Skylla Warden ↗

— Rachael Wade

#good #selflessness #beauty

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that is wants to live humbly for one. ↗

— Wilhelm Stekel

#immaturity #quoted #salinger #selflessness #maturity

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

— Solange nicole

#compassion-wisdom #love #people #selflessness #solange

I believe in love―a kind, selfless, unending devotion. I believe it is rare. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#kindness #love #richelle #richelle-goodrich #selflessness

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

— Criss Jami

#considerate #delight #favor #god #happiness

What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#inspirational #selflessness #woman #inspirational

After the fire, when I'd tried to express my gratitude for their kindness to our customers, they'd been awkward, uncomfortable. My father had had to explain to me that giving thanks is not a common practice in India. 'Then how do you know if people appreciated what you did?' I'd asked. 'Do you really need to know?' my father had asked back. ↗

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#selflessness #dreams

But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live. ↗

— Louie Giglio

#pride #religion #selflessness #faith

Our little tribal circles, bound by social contracts and selfish mutual need. Everyone working in their own greedy self-interests and huddling together with their tribe, at war with all those outside who they regard as barely human. What breaks a human mind out of that iron cage of mistrust, is a sacrifice. The martyr who gives up everything, who abandons all personal gain, who lays down his life for the good of those outside his group. He becomes a symbol all can rally around. So instead of trying to make a selfish, violent primate somehow empathize with the whole world, which is impossible, you only need to get him to remember and love the martyr. As one is forgotten, another must replace it. ↗

— David Wong

#inspirational #sacrifice #selflessness #inspirational