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 EliotTags: selflessness meekness
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 MillerTags: selflessness desire need
In moments of exaltation one expressed sentiments that outstripped one's spiritual capabilities by a vast span; and she knew well that unless God is sought for Himself alone, with a selflessness of which she was at present incapable, He is not to be found.
Elizabeth GoudgeTags: selflessness seeking-god spiritual-capabilities
If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.
Melissa de la CruzTags: love reality selflessness sacrifice well-being
You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.
Muhammad Ali JinnahTags: life inspirational selflessness courage making-a-difference jinnah
There's nothing wrong with helping someone without a cost. Especially if there's no end return.
Solange nicoleTags: love people selflessness community compassion-wisdom solange
God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.
Criss JamiTags: happiness blessings peace god selflessness delight joy selfishness worth obedience righteousness holiness favor worthiness considerate righteous worthy inconsiderate
If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.
Criss JamiTags: happiness world self-control peace selflessness happy selfishness unity worth problem problem-solving solution ultimate-answer together worthiness considerate working-together worthy ultimate inconsiderate
She did understand, or at least she understood that she was supposed to understand. She understood, and said nothing about it, and prayed for the power to forgive, and did forgive. But he can't have found living with her forgiveness all that easy. Breakfast in a haze of forgiveness: coffee with forgiveness, porridge with forgiveness, forgiveness on the buttered toast. He would have been helpless against it, for how can you repudiate something that is never spoken? She resented, too, the nurse, or the many nurses, who had attended my father in the various hospitals. She wished him to owe his recovery to her alone—to her care, to her tireless devotion. That is the other side of selflessness: its tyranny.
Margaret AtwoodTags: selflessness marriage forgiveness
I come in a world of iron...to make a world of gold
Dale WassermanTags: life goals selflessness heroism generosity goals-in-life giving don-quixote life-purpose man-of-la-mancha
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