Unselfish Quotes

“I know you know I love you. What you may not know is that there is nothing I want more than to be your husband. But if you’re not ready, I’ll wait for you, Pigeon. I’m not going anywhere. I mean, yeah. I want this, but only if you do. I just . . . I need you to know that you can open this door and we can walk down the aisle, or we can get a taxi and go home. Either way, I love you.”
― Jamie McGuire, A Beautiful Wedding

“I think perfect love is any time you love unconditionally, without selfish intent, without concern for personal gain.”
― Erin McCarthy, The Pregnancy Test

“There are two types of humans in this world: those who function so they can get something and those who function so they can give something.”
― Sarah Noffke, Stunned

“Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself.”
― Elisabeth Elliot

“It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.”
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

“If anything in the universe reflects the fingerprint of God, it is the human heart"...It derives no benefit from the blood it pumps making it the most unselfish of organs...it is also the most courageous and faithful." (124, 126) - Reese”
― Charles Martin, When Crickets Cry

“I made spasmodic efforts to work, assuring myself that once I began working I would forget her. The difficulty was in beginning. There was a feeling of weakness, a sort of powerlessness now, as though I were about to be ill but was never quite ill enough, as though I were about to come down with something I did not quite come down with. It seemed to me that for the first time in my life I had been in love, and had lost, because of the grudgingness of my heart, the possibility of having what, too late, I now thought I wanted. What was it that all my life I had so carefully guarded myself against? What was it that I had felt so threatened me? My suffering, which seemed to me to be a strict consequence of having guarded myself so long, appeared to me as a kind of punishment, and this moment, which I was now enduring, as something which had been delayed for half a lifetime. I was experincing, apparently, an obscure crisis of some kind. My world acquired a tendency to crumble as easily as a soda cracker. I found myself horribly susceptible to small animals, ribbons in the hair of little girls, songs played late at night over lonely radios. It became particularly dangerous for me to go near movies in which crippled girls were healed by the unselfish love of impoverished bellhops. I had become excessively tender to all the more obvious evidences of the frailness of existence; I was capable of dissolving at the least kind word, and self-pity, in inexhaustible doses, lay close to my outraged surface. I moved painfully, an ambulatory case, mysteriously injured.”
― Alfred Hayes, In Love

“You knew what I was," he said, taking his hair back from his face, eyes wild with the will to make me believe. "You knew that my face is a lie, just pretending to be human. And you still wanted me, you could touch me, you could see what I am, the only one who knew and wanted me all the same, and you said I wasn't a --" his chest hitched. "Not a monster. I was going to tell you, and then I thought, well, I'm probably going to die in the underworld, so why can't I have this until then? I'm the stupid one; not you. I'm so sorry.”
― Karen Healey, Guardian of the Dead

“Take the I, cross it out in the middle, and you have a living christ - you yourself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“He that does good to another does good mainly, or even only, for himself.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The only higher dimension is the selfless dimension.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“Unselfishness or selflessness is not the absence of the self, it is the absence of an exclusive self, and the presence of an inclusive self - the presence of an expansive self.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“If a human can't be unselfish, what's the point in being a human!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“In this hell of a society, only sign of heaven is an unselfish heart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“By the touch of an unselfish soul, even the regular sidewalk becomes holy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“Be unselfish and there'll be serenity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“Unselfish Sonnet

Unself your soul,
And lo the joy pours.
Wipe out the I,
And the world is yours.
The more selfish you are,
The more anxious you'll be.
One who's lost in service,
Is the epitome of humanity.
In a world of self-obsession,
Be the spark most selfless.
Burn yourself to ashes,
Let all bathe in your kindness.
To give is to live o human.
To die for others is salvation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“Better than self-help is unself-help.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Everybody is dead except the unselfish.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“Unselfishness is the only love there is. In my teenage years I fell in love with humankind. Ever since then I've been an insane drunkard. I am so drunk with love for the people of earth that all the alcohol in the world holds no appeal for me.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“The opposite of war is not peace, it's unselfishness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Selfishness is superstition, unselfishness is civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Whatever is selfish, is unsustainable, whatever is unselfish, is sustainable.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

“To unself the soul is to unfold happiness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“The I is in all people,
But people are not in all the I.
That is why we suffer so much,
That is why we all cry, cry and cry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“Life and sacrifice are one and the same, life and service are one and the same.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work

“Higher Dimension (The Sonnet)

The only higher dimension,
Is the selfless dimension.
There is no magic, no mysticism,
There is only self-annihilation.
Service makes a being divine,
Not rituals and rigidity.
A kind atheist is more divine,
Than a priest who's bigoted and greedy.
You don't rise high by worshiping,
Images, symbols and ideologies.
You rise when you fall in service,
At the feet of the helpless and needy.
Those who wanna help themselves help the world.
Those who just help themselves are plain retard.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“Unselfishness is the truth, whereas selfishness is the greatest lie.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“Find a cause outside yourself, and all will be sustainable.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“I must confess that you captured my heart the moment I first beheld you, and every moment I’ve spent with you afterward has only confirmed your kind, unselfish nature.”
― Grace Hitchcock, Hearts of Gold Collection