Top 1200 Selfless Giving Quotes & Sayings

Selfless giving means forgeting about yourself. It means letting go and doing something crazy.

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

Selfless giving is being nice and there are times we don't want to be.

Eternity is selfless giving. Eternity sends forth all of the worlds, the very fabric of existence.

Selfless giving doesn't mean you let people walk all over you. You get a lot of footprints on your face that way.

In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.

Selfless giving involves time. It takes a bit of time to care and share yourself with the universe.

When you practice selfless giving, you're in balance and harmony with everything.

Selfless giving reminds us that there is an eternally present spirit in all of us, that when revealed, liberates us from both the transitory and the eternal - both of which ultimatly can be attachments.

Selfless giving is a choice. The primary choice we make is not what to give, how to give, where to give. What we are trying to do is become perfect givers.

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

Love is selfless. The key is giving up yourself.

Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness.

A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending.

The key to selfless giving is that you feel good when you do it and you feel good afterwards.

If, when you give to someone you think you're better than they are because your practing selfless giving, you're not loving.

Nature gives constantly to us. We as indendepent egos think we're important. Selfless giving has to do with overcoming the ego. The ego makes us unhappy.

Being selfless is not that different from being brave. It is when you are selfless that you are the bravest.

The intention behind our giving and receiving is the most important thing. When the act of giving is joyful, when it is unconditional and from the heart, then the energy behind the giving increases many times over. But if we give grudgingly, there is no energy behind that giving. If we feel we have lost something through the act of giving, then the gift is not truly given and will not cause increase.

Selfless giving is a guaranteed way to increase feelings of love.

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.

To love is to be selfless. To be selfless is to be fearless. To be fearless is to strip your enemies of their greatest weapon. Even if they break our bodies and drain our blood, we are unvanquished. Our goal was never to live; our goal is to love. It is the goal of all truly noble men and women. Give all that can be given. Give even your life itself.

Selfless giving presupposes something - that there is a lumunious reality.

Selfless giving does not imply giving everything up - it's simply having a good time.

Selfless giving is the art of living.

To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.

Everybody out there is just doing things for themesleves. So if you don't do that you've got to be crazy ... crazy about selfless giving!

The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results.

Selfless giving has a lot to do with what happens to you in the future. There is karma, both good and bad.

I know that actors and actresses have a great reputation for being very, very selfish, and in some cases, that's very true. But in the theater I find it doesn't help you to be selfish. You sort of have to be selfless in the theater, and the more selfless you are - that doesn't mean don't take care of yourself - but the more you sort of surrender to the work, I find, the better the work is. That's just my experience.

The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.

Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still be there - there may be lots of selfish motives lurking within the self - that you don't see.

I practice selfless giving not because I'm remarkable but just because I find that its terrifically fun!

The best mantrum is selfless giving beause as you repeat it again and again, you change.

True love knows no bargains. It is one-way traffic: giving, giving, giving.

Kundalini is generated through cultivating humility, purity, through meditation, selfless giving, and by studying with an advanced teacher on a personal level.

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.

It's always said that when one is a soldier who dies in battle, you go to a very high world. There's a great and good karma for the soldier who dies in battle because it's an extended selfless giving.

If you are fortunate enough to meet such a being then you will really learn selfless giving. You'll see that every second, every moment of their awareness is directed towards others.

'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.

Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be." "That's not entirely true." He smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with a belt to protect me-that selfless girl, that's not you?"... "You've been paying close attention, haven't you?" "I like to observe people/" "Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar.

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.

Selfless giving is measured by how good you feel. Self giving should be obvious.

When no one is selfless in a relationship, there is war. When one is selfless, there is peace. When both are selfless, there is joy.

Selfless giving is friendliness. An attitude towards life, a reverence for life. It is one of the highest of all ways.

A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?

You could go outside today and have a glum face, or you could put a smile on your face and go out into the world, even though you don't feel like it - that's selfless giving!

The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it?

Selfless giving is like putting on make-up. We're covering up a part of ourselves thats not very aware. The thing is when we take the make up off, the selflish part leaves us. We are freeer, clearer.

True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

Meidtation and selfless giving must always go together. They work together to create immortality.

Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.

You know what I hate? I hate people who give me plants. The whole giving someone plants - it's like giving someone a pet. I'm giving you responsibility, I'm giving you a thing that you now have to take care of for, like, a year until it dies, and then I'm giving you sadness and guilt.

Selfless giving does not imply superiority. Selfless giving is about love.

Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.

I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.

Even when we speak of selflessness, the mind goes to "me." We think, "I'm selfless," but everything is selfless.

If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20 years? Set yourself up well. Get the things you want - God exists in the material and in the spiritual.