And I think of one case in which one member of the relationship had multiple sclerosis, and his partner would bring him to church in a wheelchair, and the care, and the selflessness, was palpable.
She was a woman of effortless charm, inexhaustible care and stupefying selflessness.
As Eliot's fiction reveals, both in its stories and in her overarching ethical project, mothers have no monopoly on love and selflessness, on empathy and care, even if it might take motherhood for some of us to discover what the greatest novelists already know.
Perhaps one day the history books will reflect that it was these moments of love in action, of building, and sacrifice that helped craft a lasting peace for East Africa, that in some way simple acts of caring, selflessness, and solidarity managed to destroy what no army could take down.
What is religion?: Love, caring, serving, giving, sharing, oneness, brother and sisterhood, compassion and selflessness.
And then Amma was crisscrossing the globe to promote her Hindu philosophy, which espouses love, introspection and selflessness, as well as her many charities, which now include hunger and disaster relief, free health care for the poor, orphanages and recycling efforts.
Islamic teachings call for charity and selflessness.
Their heroism and selflessness are foregrounded.
I think of kindness and selflessness.
Instinctive loyalty and selflessness are deemed non-negotiable values.
