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

“Lives to serve before I sleep,
Service is my salvation.
Wounds to heal before I sleep,
Selfless joy brings illumination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Walk your wounds,
surf your suffering.
Amidst self-lovers,
martyr is the king.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Shehit Shair Society, Sonnet
(Martyr Poets Society)

Poet* is martyred so poetry can live,
Monk is martyred so holiness can live.
Reformer is martyred so society can live,
Dervish is martyred so the cosmos can live.

Sufi is martyred so serenity can breathe,
Scientist is martyred so reason finds light.
Philosopher is martyred so curiosity lives,
Saint is martyred to keep the promise alive.

The just are martyred so injustice ends -
they diss us woke, we couldn't care less.
*Shairs and seers, we are sad figures -
It's from our wounds, the world draws courage.

Walk your wounds, surf your suffering.
Amidst self-lovers, martyr is the king.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“The only devil I dread is myself - no saint am I, just human in help!”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Look at me, just look -
no weapons, no plans, no escape,
just a backbone primed by thunder,
and heart galvanized by oneness!”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“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!”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Love thy hater.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Greatest freedom is freedom from selfishness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Anybody can be gifted because anybody can be a gift to others.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“My first duty is love,
my first truth is love,
my prime directive is love,
my first nature is love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Human means a miracle,
Human means a promise.
Human is love dimension,
Human is the end of malice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Live as a lamp, not a lamb.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Every good deed is a test of heart,
Every act of love is existence tried.
It's okay to be disappointed in deception,
but never let it turn your ideals into a lie.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Every good deed is a test of heart, every act of love is existence tried.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“There is more to love than what is written on the pages of romance books.
There is more to love than pictures of arrows piercing through heart symbols.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“I don't need invite from some puny paradise;
Cosmos, my Shangri-la - me, the Servant King.
Odin doesn't wait up for Valhalla to call -
Valhalla is my empire - I am Visvaviking!”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“I don't need invite from some puny paradise;
Cosmos, my Shangri-la - me, the Servant King.
Odin doesn't wait up for Valhalla to call -
Valhalla, my empire - I am the World Viking!”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets