Quotes About Altruism

Live simply so that others may simply live.

Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.

To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks. To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress.

It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.

Be a light unto others, not boastful of self.

The question of bread for myself is a material question; but the question of bread for my neighbour, for everybody, is a spiritual and a religious question.

There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.

Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends.

For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.

No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.

When attention is given to the spiritual aspect of one's life, it brings a sense of belongingness, and responsibility, compassion and caring for the whole of humanity.

The world is full of incredible people who are embodiments of compassion. Some of them have a spiritual path; some of them don't.

Love does not expect anything in return

The greatest spiritual blessing comes from helping another.

As we immerse ourselves in the service of others, we find our spiritual selves and come unto Him.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love

It all begins with goodness in the heart.

Lend your ears to the deaf, your eyes to the blind, your hands to the weak, your tongue to the mute, your mind to the perplexed, and your heart to the weary.

Our highest deeds come from helping the lowest people.

As I stood behind you, I sensed that God was telling me to pay for your groceries, so I did. Simple as that.