Quotes About Altruism

Gaben sind dazu da, gegeben zu werden.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.     ââ'¬â€RalphWaldo Emerson; American poet, essayist, visionary, giver

Giving feels good. It's a form of healing. Not just for you as an individual, but for everyone.

la bondad es sorprendentemente difícil

To love, to truly love another—that is not for the faint of heart. Why, I've seen a husband mop the brow of his plague-ridden wife, heedless of his own safety. I've seen a murderer's mother weep at the gallows, and a starving boy give his last crust of bread to his sister. Love is so strong, so ferocious, that she frightens even me. Me…

A good deed needs no excuse.

A good deed needs no excuse. So his pop used to reassure Dexter when he would resist, embarrassed, carrying a covered dish of leftover meatballs to the bums and hoboes who haunted the carny houses near his restaurant. Dexter muttered the phrase to himself as he lifted the heavy folded chair into his trunk. A good deed needs no excuse.

Don't you know that this is the only reason we are here, to love one another, and to be loved?

In all our efforts, if we are not about people, our labors aren't really about Jesus but about us.

Giving money to individuals does little." "It does a lot," I said quietly, "for those people.

It might feel better to give to someone you know than a stranger, or to donate to an organization whose story brings a tear to your eye, but that's your brain playing tricks on you. The morality of an action depends, ultimately and only, on its outcomes.

Do you know what philanthropist means?" Libby asked me seriously. "It means rich.

He had ceased to believe in the efficacy of alms; it was not sufficient that one should be charitable, henceforth one must be just. Given justice, indeed, horrid misery would disappear, and no such thing as charity would be needed.

Sólo la gente superficial e irreflexiva condena el egoísmo, cuando habría que erigirle altares como a numen tutelar: La pasión y el altruismo son los que casi siempre nos ponen en el caso de molestar, dañar y herir al prójimo: el egoísmo nunca. Consejero

I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.

We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.

I would rather be miserable than that he should be: that proves I love him better than myself.

Well, we must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering—

I love him better than myself, Ellen; and I know it by this - I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be - that proves I love him better than myself.

I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain ; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

Cowardice is just thinking of your own miserable skin instead of somebody else's.

This is the only way. I will not allow humans or fairies to die when I might have prevented it." Butler would not give up. "Listen to yourself. You sound like a... like a good guy! There's nothing in this for you.