Thinking of others first

Usage examples of selflessness.

It was a sacred trust to be one, the ultimate honor coupled with the ultimate selflessness, and with the membership came the unspoken understanding of its secrecy, and its honor.

Honest love is a selfless concept, that I have already said, and my own selflessness has been put to a severe test this spring.

It was this combination of beauty, determination, and selflessness that set her apart from every other woman around her.

This calls for efforts to serve the Cause, to diffuse the sweet savours of God, to manifest selflessness, consecration and self-sacrifice in our labours in His Path.

He has taught them selflessness, and freedom from material things, and detachment from the world, and has enabled them to understand the verities of Heaven.

It is the heart that, subduing within itself all earthly cares, shines forth resplendent in the realm of love and selflessness, attracting to itself the souls of the weary and depressed, soothing their wounds with the balm of this Message.

Unity amongst the friends, selflessness in our labors in His Path, detachment from all worldly things, the greatest prudence and caution in every step we take, earnest endeavor to carry out only what is His Holy Will and Pleasure, the constant awareness of His Presence and of the example of His Life, the absolute shunning of whomsoever we feel to be an enemy of the Cause .

Let us recall His explicit and often-repeated assurances that every Assembly elected in that rarefied atmosphere of selflessness and detachment is, in truth, appointed of God, that its verdict is truly inspired, that one and all should submit to its decision unreservedly and with cheerfulness.

This girl, a tube of selflessness running through her as unfillable as those empty Torricellian columns pleading for the United Way.

He loves that woman with a kind of selflessness that borders on idol­atry.

I'm a good person, I'm a doctor, and here I am championing greed over selflessness, cheering on the haves against the have-nots.

Always an artist of concision and selflessness, she has arrived in her old age at a gorgeous fluidity and expansion of phrase.

Stated thus, the movement won a host of converts not only among the stupid and oppressed but among the intelligent as well, who saw in its selflessness an alternative to the tawdry hucksterism of the "open college"

How would it feel, to step forth into life after endless waiting, only to be seized by the necessity for selflessness?