#Selfless Service
Quotes tagged #Selfless Service
Quotes: 3

Doing Good When Recognition Never Arrives
Kent M. Keith’s line confronts a quiet, familiar disappointment: our kind actions are often ignored, misremembered, or even misconstrued. By stating that “the good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow,” he names a hard truth about moral life in an impatient world. Yet the command that follows—“Do good anyway”—turns this truth into an invitation. Instead of treating forgetfulness as a reason to withdraw, Keith reframes it as the very context in which authentic goodness must operate. [...]
Created on: 12/13/2025

Awakening to Life as an Act of Service
Across cultures, the awakening takes familiar forms. The Bhagavad Gita’s karma yoga urges selfless action: “Therefore, without attachment, perform the work that is to be done” (3.19). Buddhism’s bodhisattva vow, voiced in Shantideva’s Bodhicaryavatara (c. 8th century), longs to be “a boat, a bridge, a cause of well-being for all.” Christian diakonia echoes in Matthew 25:40: “Whatever you did for one of the least of these… you did for me.” And Ubuntu, articulated by John Mbiti (1969) as “I am because we are,” recasts identity as shared being. Thus, service is not a narrow duty; it is a cosmology of belonging. [...]
Created on: 8/10/2025

The Miracle of Happiness in Service - Mother Teresa
Rather than viewing work as a burden, this perspective encourages seeing it as an opportunity to bring happiness, both to oneself and to those being served. [...]
Created on: 8/14/2024