Top 100 Quotes About Selfless Love
#1. Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
Rabindranath Tagore
#2. Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.
Bob Goff
#3. Anybody who's had children knows this feeling of deep love. It's a selfless love, an unconditional love. And it makes you kind of examine everything that has happened.
Jennifer Lopez
#4. As you have seen the treachery of love because of me, I have seen my cruelty because of you. But you learned mercy from me, and from you I learned resilience. As you came to understand me enough to know the value I placed on selfless love, I understand your nature better.
D. Morgenstern
#5. 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?
Billy Graham
#6. The Christmas spirit will elude you
'til a selfless love consumes you
and the joy of giving moves you.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#7. Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity.
Santosh Kalwar
#8. The selfless love that we give to others, to the point of being willing to sacrifice our lives for them, is all the proof I need that human beings are not mere animals of self-interest. We carry within us a divine spark, and if we chose to recognize it, our lives have dignity, meaning, hope.
Dean Koontz
#9. My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. If we loved Steve Aylett, really loved him in the way that he deserves, a selfless love that genuinely wanted nothing save his happiness and comfort, we'd lobotomise him.
Alan Moore
#12. We all intuitively know that a mother's love is crucial to the creation of a well-adjusted human and that we are all born with an instinctive expectation of receiving unconditionally selfless love from our mother.
Jeremy Griffith
#13. Given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in the love between man and dog ... It is a completely selfless love.
Milan Kundera
#14. It was a kind love, a selfless love. I was an explorer and you were a traveller. We met at crossroads. I saw love in your smile and I recognized in for the first time in my life. But you had a plane to catch and I'm already home.
Lang Leav
#15. Forgiveness requires a sacrifice of pride. A humbling of the spirit. An increase of selfless love. A time when you allow others' feelings to be more important than your own.
Ann H. Gabhart
#16. Love is selfless! Love is "you before me" decision making. Need it shorter? Love = Ub4me! There it is.
James MacDonald
#17. Agape love is selfless love ... the love God wants us to have isn't just an emotion but a conscious act of the will - a deliberate decision on our part to put others ahead of ourselves. This is the kind of love God has for us.
Billy Graham
#18. Selfless love is the elevator that leads you up the great heights of sacrifice to prove your depth of sincerity.
Shubha Vilas
#19. The beauty and charm of selfless love and service should not die away from the face of this earth. The world should know that a life of dedication is possible, that a life inspired by love and service to humanity is possible.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#20. The guru is not someone who is confined to the body. When there is selfless love for the guru, we will be able to see him not only in his body but in every living and nonliving thing in this world. Learn to see everything as the guru's body and to serve them accordingly.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#21. A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?
John Dufresne
#22. Dogs are always good and full of selfless love. They are undiluted vessels of joy who never, ever deserve anything bad that happens to them.
Steven Rowley
#23. True, unconditional, selfless love can soften the hardest heart, cleanse the filthiest soul, and quench the driest spirit." ~The Great Luna
Quinn Loftis
#24. Selfish love hurts, selfless love heals.
Rob Liano
#25. The events of that day would forever be remembered, and they stood together as a united Marridon, a nation that would lead in innovation and liberality, taking up the thread that had been left for them, the essence of selfless love woven along a national loom.
Michelle Franklin
#26. Selfless love can transform sibling rivalry. - Emily Osburne
Gary Chapman
#27. I walked away from this movie thinking how important it is to have a genuine selfless love for your children. You can really mess kids up if you don't have the right kind of love for them.
Jonathan Jackson
#29. You completely redefine my idea of what love is and should be. That it needn't be possessive, volatile or detrimental to your well-being, but can be selfless, gentle and consistent -- and should empower you to pursue your passions. That it should balance and enrich a life, not tear it to pieces.
Beau Taplin
#30. If you help someones bank account rise
But you can't help their heart feel ...
Really, what is your value?
Nikki Rowe
#31. When you switch your focus from the "we" to the "me", the goal from "team" to "self", you upset the balance of the whole. Consequentially, that redistribution of effort impedes success.
Carlos Wallace
#32. Maybe the ability to confer attention to another person was not simply common courtesy, but was the fundamental act of humanity. When it came down to it, all we ever really have to give each other is our attention. Wasn't that what love was? Paying selfless attention?
Carolyn Jourdan
#33. Selfless giving does not imply superiority. Selfless giving is about love.
Frederick Lenz
#34. Selfless giving is love in action. Initially you will feel that you should help in a certain way, with a certain result. Do your best, but don't be concerned with results; do it for the infinite.
Frederick Lenz
#35. I'm convinced we have each been endowed with a beautiful heart. We may not always see it. We may not even believe it. But it's a gift that came with birth and, every time we act selflessly, it grows a little.
Steve Goodier
#36. The Temple of Righteousness is built and its four walls are the four Principles - Purity, Wisdom, Compassion, Love. Peace is its roof; its floor Steadfastness, its entrance-door is Selfless Duty, its atmosphere is Inspiration, and its music is the Joy of the perfect.
James Allen
#37. We do things in life to make others happy. We make sacrifices because that feeling - the one I once thought was altruism, but have since learned is just love - it makes us feel good. We give, but it's never selfless.
Ginger Scott
#39. Love will make you reckless. It can drag out parts of you that common sense and fear usually keep hidden away. Because love is selfless and selfish.
R.S. Grey
#40. When your love is so deep and selfless that it demands to be reciprocated , the people you love are forced-for your sake, not theirs - into becoming better human beings.
Lee Kravitz
#41. When it's about your life, it's time to be selfish.
Dee Dee Artner
#42. I think that she is everything I have ever loved about our religion distilled down to fit into one person, everything about the faith that is both selfless and responsible.
Ann Patchett
#43. To love is to be selfless. Let me be selfless.
S. Jae-Jones
#45. Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.
Julianna Baggott
#46. This ring means that I choose to spend the rest of my life with you. I promise to love you in the nurturing and selfless way that you love me. I've changed so much since I've known you. Your love has given me the strength to be softer. You've taught me kindness and compassion. You make me better.
Portia De Rossi
#47. Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.
Colleen Hoover
#48. Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste, all hopeless, and we can ... well ... go on.
John L'Heureux
#50. Love is a selfless service to mankind like a showcase done by the twinkling stars in beautiful nightly sky.
Santosh Kalwar
#51. True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.
Sadhu Vaswani
#52. How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!
Susan Sontag
#53. Love wasn't selfless, and it wasn't selfish either. Love was equality. It was saying that another person's self was just as important as yours, and expecting them to feel the same way.
Rose Lerner
#54. True biblical love is a selfless commitment of one's body, soul, and spirit to the betterment of the other person.
Jim George
#55. Some birdies were about a family with hardships. Other days, birdie was a selfless teacher. And birdie from before is my first love.
Kim Su-mi
#56. Develop strength and control at an early age and embrace love coupled with a selfless heart. Only then, will you find true peace in your heart and begin the journey to the best version of yourself and the best days of your life.
Tony Gaskins
#57. Love is a combination of virtues. The amount you receive from someone is based on the percentage of those virtues learned and applied. Unhappiness in a relationship is not a lack of love, but a lack of virtues in the percentages your significant other needs.
Shannon L. Alder
#58. Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker.
Sylvester Stallone
#59. Selfless-giving burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless-giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice because we do all of it only for love.
Frederick Lenz
#60. As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.
Jim George
#61. Why are you doing this? I want you to be alive."
"Because," he said, tracing a finger along my cheek. "Real love is selfless.
Yvonne Woon
#62. Love is the selfless promotion of the growth of the other.
Milton Mayeroff
#63. True love is the ironically selfless need to know that your person will be okay without you.
Renee Carlino
#64. Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
Mortimer Adler
#65. Love is a decision, not just an emotion. It is selfless, and a commitment.
Lydia McLaughlin
#66. We must help young women immerse themselves in a selfless work, perhaps receiving little public praise or attention. Instead, they must feel the Lord's great love for them and their efforts through the influence of the Holy Ghost.
Neill F. Marriott
#67. You don't give up on people you truly love. Whether they are in your life or stand on the edge of your heart, you want them to be happy. This is the truest kind of love because it gives more than it ever receives.
Shannon L. Alder
#68. We can all learn to conquer hatred through love -drawing on the power released through the practice of meditation to throw all our weight, all our energy, and all our will on the side of what is patient, forgiving, and selfless in ourselves and others.
Eknath Easwaran
#69. I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back. It's sad, perhaps, but not tragic, unless you dwell forever in the pursuit of their elusive affections.
Cammie McGovern
#70. I love you and sometimes that means you have to sacrifice your own happiness to be selfless.
Joanne McClean
#71. We all have a grain of god in us. We do get opportunities to realize it, when moments in life demand selfless deeds of compassion from us. But we often squander them.
Ashok Kallarakkal
#73. You're the reason why selfless soldiers won't be kicked out of the military because of who they are or who they love.
Barack Obama
#74. I know God enjoys hearing my take on how best we should all proceed, as I'm always full of useful advice. I'm sure God says either, "Oh, I so love Annie's selfless and evolved thoughts," or else "Jeez. What a head case.
Anne Lamott
#75. The temple is a point of intersection between heaven and earth. In this sacred place, holy work will be performed through selfless service and love. The temple reminds [us] of all that is good and beautiful in the world.
David A. Bednar
#76. 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.
Jose N. Harris
#77. There is the path of karma, selfless action, the path of love and devotion, the path of training the mind and the path of Yoga, mantra and tantra this is what the various saints advocated.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#78. Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love.
Mahatma Gandhi
#79. Karma Yoga is mindful service to the humanity with love and respect.
Amit Ray
#80. We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#81. Will had laid down his heart for her and Jem to walk upon because he loved them more than he loved himself
Cassandra Clare
#82. A man can't talk of true happiness if he has never known true love - the trusting, selfless and unconditional love that I took for granted.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#83. 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.
Elisabeth Elliot
#84. Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.
Ramakrishna
#85. One who rules assumes irrevocable responsibility for the ruled. You are a husbandman. This demands, at times, a selfless act of love which may only be amusing to those you rule.
Frank Herbert
#86. My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.
Radhanath Swami
#87. But there is a beauty even in loving without response because that kind of love is truly selfless. When we love with no expectation or promise of reciprocity, we know what it means to sacrifice and deny ourselves in ways we wouldn't otherwise.
Matt Chandler
#89. You will know it is love not when you think about them all the time or want to be with them, but when you worry about them and you want their approval and happiness.
Shannon L. Alder
#91. 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
#92. I've changed for the better. I'm much more selfless and humble and you're reminded about what life's really about. You love your kid so much that you just want to be a brilliant role model for them. It cleans up your act a bit.
Curtis Stone
#93. Mortals have become spoiled and ungracious, and fail to appreciate the things right around them. They forget that Christmas is about love, and God's perfect, selfless gift.
Cameo Renae
#94. A heart given freely is the most vulnerable and selfless thing one can offer another human being. It can be as fragile and needy as a newly born infant, or as solid and self-supporting as a granite pillar, yet it is the hands of the recipient that determines its ultimate fate.
Mark W. Boyer
#95. They believe one becomes selfless in love because one desires the advantage of another human being, often against one's own advantage. But in return for that they want to possess the other person.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#96. No one becomes pure and selfless overnight; it involves time and concentrated effort, coupled with tremendous patience and love.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#97. If you are unhappy - be that way in your bedroom - but whenever you come out into the world, in real selfless giving we push all of that aside and we smile, love and give to others.
Frederick Lenz
#98. Teagan - "What is it?"
Garreth - "No one's ever prayed for me before. I've always heard your prayers. You prayed for me to come to you when you had a bad dream. I even heard you pray for a perfect, selfless, superwonderful boy to fall in love with. But I've never heard you pray for me.
Jennifer Murgia
#100. We will see every human beings as Christ and we will help Hindus to be better Hindus, Muslims to be better Muslims, and Christians to be better Christians"(Mother Teresa).
Maryanne Raphael
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