Selfless Quotes

“My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for.”
― Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

“Day, the champion of the people, the one who can't bear to see those around him suffer on his behalf, who would gladly give his life for those he loves.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“People shouldn't have everything they want. No one is entitled to their every desire. To live in balance, we must willingly decide not to take all that we can from the world, and from others.”
― F.C. Yee, The Shadow of Kyoshi

“Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“THE UNFORGIVEN


Tell me if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of people:

The kind who take and don't give.
The kind to whom you give and give,
And they keep asking.
The kind to whom you give and give and they say you gave nothing.
The kind whom have never offered anything,
But act like they're the ones providing
EVERYTHING.

The kind you give and give,
But take more than you can give.
And when they have already taken everything,
They get mad at you when you say you have
Nothing more to give.

The unforgiving,
The misgiving,
Wastefully living -
And selfishly driven.
The rat that never gives back,
Yet is so quick to attack -
Because they think the word
TAKING
Seriously means
GIVING.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I hope that someday, somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight, and that’s all they do. They don’t pull away. They don’t look at your face. They don’t try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms, without an ounce of selfishness in it.”
― Adrienne Shelly

“What I’m left with when I have nothing left is the satisfaction of knowing that I left nothing for myself in the service of someone else.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A selfish life isn’t God’s purpose for you”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You shouldn’t live for yourself alone but you must also learn to live the Christian life”
― Sunday Adelaja

“We deny the fact that people get into or remain in our lives mainly for selfish reasons mainly for a selfish reason, namely, to protect our cherished belief that we are special.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sometimes you have to close your eyes to see, but you always have to cease talking to listen.”
― Aegelis, Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light

“Do I have any right to happiness, when millions go without food and shelter!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Allergic to Opulence (Sonnet 2230)

Do I have any right to happiness,
when millions go without food and shelter!
That's why, there's not a trace of luxury in my life,
I churn out humanitarian electricity all waking hours.

Most expensive clothes I own cost 20 dollars,
most expensive devices I own cost 200 dollars.
Born to a factory worker, I never knew luxury,
then I made me a name, but saw the world's condition,
I grew an absolute repulsion to lifestyle luxurious.

The question is not, how much can I enjoy,
but how much can I endure to lift up the world!
Life's meaning comes not from what we gain for
ourselves, but from what we give up for others.

I'm existentially allergic to opulence,
every soft bed feels like a betrayal -
expensive meals scream of starving children,
dollar spent on luxury is a dollar animal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I exist for I dissolve in all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I wear the same casual outfit everywhere, pair of jeans with a shirt or tshirt - people wear fancy clothes either to look and feel good, or impress others, I have no need for either, so I walk like beggar.

Vanity and validation are for the small of mind, Himalayan Human has no need for cosmetic adornment. The Sun is beyond the realms of humility and hubris, I'm neither humble nor hubrous, just burning with mission.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“To give you and all of you is the most beautiful gift you could ever give.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“Life is a three act existence: eat, sleep and serve.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“You don’t enter a culture, you disappear into it, be annihilated for others, and you come to life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Compassion is the mother of civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“I take care of the world as my family, and someone somewhere will take care of my immediate family when I am not there, that's the kind of blind illogical faith that actually makes a difference.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“In English we say:
proof of the pudding is in the eating.
In Naskarian we say:
proof of the pudding is in the sharing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Beyond faith, intellect, reason and ritual, existence blooms in I-less continuum.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Drunken Humanitarian (Sonnet)

Go, get drunk, my friend!

Get so drunk with a vision unseen,
even monsoon begins to cry!
Get so drunk with an unbent cause,
even bosons bow to thy might!

Get so drunk with incorruptibility,
you emerge a walking Wardencliffe.
Get so drunk with accountability,
no Rorschach can analyze your spirit.

Get so drunk with uncontaminated justice,
every government keeps a file on you!
Get so drunk with untainted love,
conclaves convene to decipher you!

Any ape can find salvation in liquid escape,
takes a human to endure through devastation.
Any rodent of the gutter can drown in alcohol,
it takes a giant to drink the world's poison.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Like many streams finally meet in the sea, we are all born of nature, and ultimately disperse into nature, our identity, our memory, emotions, everything - then the only place we exist is in the memories of other people, whose lives we might have influenced in some way.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Entity can be wiped out, but not existence, existence that has ignited a few lives.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Ignorance is animal blessing,
knowledge is human curse.
Selfishness is animal tradition,
service is human choice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Existence lived in service of others, is existence that outlives the entity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop