Browse 246 quotes about Selfless Service.
“World is My Valentine (The Sonnet)
My first and foremost love is society,
Romance 'n things are second priority.
My love seeks not to be loved in return,
In fact, my love thrives in cold nonreciprocity.
Mine is not to reason why, mine is to love and die,
There's no greater love than that of a one-sided lover.
The world is to me what Julia was to Saint Valentine,
And what the impoverished were to Nicholas Santa.
A world anemic in love needs a day to celebrate love,
I am a lover eternal, for me every day is valentine's day.
The world is my valentine, as such it is under my care,
It's my duty to protect it from Claudius' mischievous play.
I shall stop breathing before I break this pledge of mine.
There's no greater power than the pledge of a lover divine.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Honor He Wrote Sonnet 12
After all this time, the sun doesn't say to us,
Listen you guys, you owe all your light to me.
The trees don’t grab our throat with its vines,
And yell, all your air and food are my charity.
A candle does not burn to be appraised,
But because to burn is the purpose of a candle.
A candle not burning is no candle at all,
Be a burning candle and live life purpose-driven.
Life is a vessel of infinite majesty and potential,
Let us not let it rot at the shore playing safe.
Come hail or high water, let us be shredded,
Let us be annihilated in service and in help.
Let us be human, let us be alive across all narrowness.
Let us be the shinning beacon of supreme unselfishness.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“That's what the world needs, not blue blood and white collars, but blood that boils at injustice and collar that soils in service.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“You can put an end to my life, but you can't wipe out my light.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“In work be restless, in love be limitless, in care be oceandeep, in service be selfless.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Look up, look at the stars. You know, some of those shining stars don't exist any more, they exploded long ago, yet their light keeps shining. Be a star my friend, and burn with all your might, so that your light lives on, even after you die.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“You think booze makes you drunk? Fall head over heels in love with humankind, then you'll know what true drunkenness is all about. And in that drunkenness you'll know sanity - in that drunkenness you'll know true sapience.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“You think I am the torch! I ain't - I am just the matchstick. Come - grab my hand - let me set you on fire.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“It ain't time for comfort, it ain't time for leisure, not yet anyways. It's time for work – uncorrupted, unvarnished, untainted humanitarian work.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“Work, work, work - in silence - work - in agony - work – in tears - work - don't mind the mockery - don't mind the treachery - don't mind the heartbleed - just keep working. Why you ask? Because someone somewhere has love and light in their life because of your work.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“Wanna learn about modern United States - don't study me, study MLK. Wanna learn about modern Latin America - don't study me, study José Martí. Wanna learn about modern India - don't study me, study Narendranath Datta. But if you wanna learn about modern humankind, beyond borders and cultures - then you may grab my hand - not so I could give you knowledge or comfort, but so I could set you on fire.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“Wipe Out The I (The Sonnet)
Once a person gives up all for others,
They'll achieve everything worth achieving.
The art of self-discovery is in self-annihilation,
Whereas self-obsession only causes suffering.
Once a person is insane with the sacrificial spirit,
They'll know the meaning of civilized sanity.
Once a person feels the joy of selflessness,
All worldly pleasures will turn into foul vanity.
Once a person hones the power of simplicity,
They'll trash all trace of pomposity from life.
Once a person senses the valor of humility,
They'll discard all arrogant divide.
Life is simple, but we mess it up with selfishness.
Wipe out the I, and you will taste its sweetness.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“The art of self-discovery is in self-annihilation.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“If I have ten days to live, I'll spend one day gathering strength, so I can spend the rest nine days, helping and lifting the fallen.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“The only people who never die, are those who happily die for others.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Even the mountains bow, but not for self-absorbed snobs. Oceans part making way, only for those not afraid of storms.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“No name, no background, no ancestry, nothing - you identity is your purpose - your identity is your work - your identity is your accountability - your identity is your sacrifice.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“Law of Sacrifice (The Sonnet)
The more you give life,
The more you'll have life.
The more you give light,
The more you'll have light.
The more the I gets lost in others,
The more you'll end all bigoted strife.
The more you take pain for those around,
The more you'll know the joy of life.
Worst of all superstitions is selfishness,
It keeps an animal from becoming human.
Let the mind be cleansed of all self,
So our heart becomes a mirror for every person.
Reject all selfishness that makes you cold and blind.
Sacrifice is the law behind all love and light.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“Giants in Jeans Sonnet 47
Walk up to death,
And smile at your doom.
At the sight of your conviction,
Stars will begin to bloom.
Tread bravely on misery,
Defy anything that causes weakness.
At the sound of your courageous footsteps,
The soil will regain its fragrance.
Embolden your chest o mighty victor,
Against a hailstorm of ridicule.
Even the slight sound of your whisper,
Will give chills to the cruel.
Care for society, not its opinion of you.
Sacrifice all image and status, and stand up anew.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“I'll be gone soon, but I'll leave behind enough soldiers to take care of this world for thousands of years.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“No time for romance, no time for rigidity, no time for rituals - only sacrifice - that's what's needed!”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“The struggle isn't over till the last drop of tear is wiped out.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“One who has tasted the elixir of sacrifice is not satisfied by anything but the pursuit of service.”
Source: Revolution Indomable
“Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.”
“Honor He Wrote Sonnet 73
Better a lion in sheep's skin,
Than a sheep in lion's skin.
Better a giant in a gentle vessel,
Than germs in a fancy canteen.
When not needed act mostly a sheep,
But occasionally you gotta let the lion out.
Be a disinfectant and sanitize the world,
Not germs that make disease break out.
All social sickness is caused by selfishness,
And hypocrisy is what makes things worse.
Wipe out all hypocrisy from your being's core,
The world is a reflection of what's in our heart.
I say again, lion on the inside, sheep on the out.
When chihuahuas wreak havoc, let the dinosaur out.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Where there is a place for love, there is place for everything else.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Whatever the trouble may be, you are the answer. In this difficult time, you are peygamber undercover.”
Source: Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability
“Giants in Jeans Sonnet 24
Who is to build the world?
Who is to raise the society?
Who is to water the plants?
Who is to stand up for sanity?
Who is to bear agony for community?
Who is to go hungry feeding another?
Who is to heal the sick while bleeding?
Who is to lift the lowly trotting fire?
Who is to burn alive to bring light?
Who is to walk on thorns to build the bridge?
Who is to be deceived yet stay humble?
Who is to lay down so others can climb the ridge?
It is you, o misfit, o explorer of impossibility,
Even if no one joins us, our world is our responsibility!”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“Giants in Jeans Sonnet 64
Let us be oblivious to security and comfort,
In our pursuit and practice of humanity.
Let us be oblivious to personal happiness,
In our endeavors into the impossibility.
Let us throw all fear and anxiety overboard,
For the dreams that’ll determine our destiny.
Let us trample every foul desire for luxury,
And treat the hard problem of inhumanity.
Let us pay no heed to gain and pain,
In our course of constructing a whole society.
Let us not sit around praying for a messiah,
And stand up ourselves to carry out that duty.
Let others be oblivious to humanity if they want.
Even if it's doomsday, sapling of service we'll plant.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“Be the heart that loves and lifts, be the hand that shares might. Feel the talk and talk the feel, be the mirror of sight beyond sight.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Mental Por El Mundo (The Sonnet)
Mental por el mundo,
Mental por la gente!
Sin mentalidad de servicio,
No podemos seguir adelante.
Some are mental por dinero,
Some are loco por la ropa.
Let them be as they please,
Estoy loco por la humanidad.
A promise was once made,
He asked me to unify the world.
Ever since, I have been on duty,
My life isn't mine but of the world.
If I fail, you cross off one human.
If I succeed, you witness civilization.”
Source: Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
“Honor He Wrote Sonnet 57
Dreams that we witness in sleep, ain't no dream,
Real dream is the one that doesn't let us sleep.
Only when mindful martyrs work without blink,
Rest of the world has a peaceful sleep.
I have been sleepless ever since I came of age,
Such is the madness of the dream of assimilation.
The thought of rest rarely enters my mind,
No matter how much the climb causes desolation.
No dream comes to fruition without restless nights,
No sun ever rises without first crossing darkness.
No mortal ever turns immortal without self-sacrifice,
No world is ever beautified without martyr's madness.
Enough with the snobbish nonsense of dream analyzing!
All know sleepwalking, now let ‘em witness dreamwalking!”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Possess this world with your oneness, before it possesses you with its selfishness.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“Milkyway Messiah (The Sonnet)
Yada yada hi dharmasya glanirbhavati bharata,
Cada vez que los oprimidos claman esperanza,
Siyasi hayvanlar ne zaman gelip nefret satarsa,
Whenever morons 'n their yes men ruin armonia,
Jab jab some jhandus rashtrabadka jhanda lehraye,
När kärleken till lyx väger tyngre än socialt ansvar,
Immer wenn das herz von gier überwältigt wird,
When humility is trampled by megalomaniacal desire,
Sempre que a bondade é dominada pelo intelecto,
Quando la compassione è sopraffatta dall'indifferenza,
Kapag tinanggap ang pagiging makasarili bilang batas,
Whenever accountability is deemed as misdemeanor,
Embracing affliction, from the dust 'n dirt of soil 'n street,
You the Milkyway Messiah is to rise as the sentient shield.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“The world cares not about your pain,
still can you care for the world's pain?
In a paradigm paved by and for psychopaths,
can you be the glaringly anomalous love-lane?”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“The meaning of office is service, meaning of faith is service, meaning of science is service.”
Source: Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
“Service over selfies, that is life for the unselfish.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“In Work Be Restless (The Sonnet)
In work, be restless,
In love, be limitless,
In care, be oceandeep,
In service, be selfless.
In virtue, be skywide,
In justice, be incorruptible,
In integrity, be unbending,
In honor, be uncompromisable.
In culture, be without walls,
In courage, be endless,
In compassion, be senseless,
In character, be borderless.
Life's too grand to be wasted in gutter.
Expand your heart and you'll rise higher.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Today (The Sonnet)
Today, we ain't no partisan poophead.
Today, we are just plain human.
Today, we ain't no intellectual ding-dong.
Today, we are just plain human.
Today, we ain't no ideological blockhead.
Today, we are just plain human.
Today, we ain't no religious hard case.
Today, we are just plain human.
Today, we ain't slaves to class 'n luxury.
Today, we are just plain human.
Today, we ain't no vermin after self-care.
Today, we are just plain human.
I know very well, that day is not today.
So, let us start the work right this very day.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“If I Must Die (The Sonnet)
I have no desire to die as just,
Another writer like that bard fella.
If I must die as a writer, I will die as,
The first multi-cultural writer en historia.
I have no desire to die as just,
Another founder of a sect or nation.
If I must die as something, I'll die as,
One of the founders of human unification.
I have no desire to die as just another,
Coldhearted scientist or pompous philosopher.
If I must die as a scientist and philosopher,
I'll die as the one who made love truth's driver.
But above all that, I have no desire to die, period.
Cowards die, whereas I, am already martyred.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“Milkyway Messiah Sonnet (Simplified Version)
Whenever humanity degrades into inhumanity,
Whenever the oppressed cry out for a little dignity,
Whenever political animals come and sell hate,
Whenever morons 'n their yes men ruin harmony,
Whenever some cavemen fly the flag of tribalism,
Whenever love of luxury undermines accountability,
Whenever gentleness is overpowered by greed,
Whenever megalomania tramples heart's humility,
Whenever goodness is patronized by cold smartness,
Whenever compassion is vilified by indifference,
Whenever selfishness is accepted as norm and sanity,
Whenever accountability is deemed as an offence,
Embracing affliction, from the dust 'n dirt of soil 'n street,
You the Milkyway Messiah is to rise as the sentient shield.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“Let Us Be (The Sonnet)
Let us be evolution,
Let us be the revolution.
There is plenty pollution,
Now let's be the solution.
Let us be soldiers eternal,
Let us be lovers adamant.
Let's not fear the fiery storms,
Let us be humans valiant.
Let us be the hope to others,
Let us be joy to others.
In a world full of self-obsession,
Across all self, let’s be the help to others.
Service of society is no act of charity,
For it is just life, for it is just humanity.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“My Liberty (The Sonnet)
My liberty is not in luxury,
My liberty is on the blades of grass.
My liberty is not in the palace,
My liberty is in molecules of dust.
My liberty is not in fancy ceremonies,
My liberty is in alleys of the homeless.
My liberty is not in the crown jewels,
My liberty is at the feet of the pathless.
My liberty is not in murals of rigidity,
My liberty is across tradition’s torment.
My liberty is not in the habits of history,
My liberty is in building the present.
My liberty is in the destruction of destiny.
I am liberty incarnate and I write my own reality.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“Our most intense joy comes not from personal feats, but from helping other persons achieve their goals. We become suppler human beings when we find true joy in witnessing other people’s successes and unabashedly share in their joyful accomplishments.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A mature person reaps joy in the commonplace acts of living, appreciates the serenity of just being, while balancing the responsibilities that come naturally about when deeply immersed in family and community affairs. Directing their attention outward, assisting other people in their troubled times, while denying themselves the indulgence of self-absorption frees a person’s bidding mind from a jumble of discordant thoughts, wants, and unholy bequests.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“The greatest humanitarians are silent humanitarians, who live their mission with zero claim to applause.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Karma Yoga is mindful service to the humanity with love and respect.”
Source: Yoga The Science of Well-Being
“Be the last refuge for those refused. In you lies solution, in you lies the truth.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“Curse of Spirituality (Sonnet 2537)
Why is it that 90% of modern spiritual
population are just newage nutters,
what's the point in surpassing religious
fundamentalism, if you end up being
sucked into superstitions with glitter!
Why can't you be spiritual
without being superstitious,
why can't you be religious
without being a fundamentalist -
the day you could, that's the beginning
of civilized spirituality and human religion.
I'm not asking for cold, cantankerous logic
all the time, all I'm saying is, why does
spirituality have to depend on superstition -
if your spirituality crumbles without superstition,
you were never spiritual, just underdeveloped.
There is no spirituality except kindness,
there is no religion but service.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Holiness unfolds in human welfare.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology