Quotes About Altruism

Find someone worse off than you and help them. It will put your life in perspective.

Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive.

Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.

The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice.

What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always heroic and their acts aren't always devoid of selfishness.

Transcendent generosity is simply a willingness to be open and do whatever is necessary in the moment, without any philosophical or religious rationale. Seeing someone in need, you're willing to share your wealth, your happiness, or your wisdom, and you're also willing to share in the pain of others. Yet when you give, you need to do so with the awareness that your gift will be both appropriate and helpful.

However, whatever your own path is, wherever it takes you, there is one instruction you should protect and always carry with you: never give up on anyone. Even if you can't help someone now, don't abandon him or her mentally or close the door to your heart. That is the direct word of the Buddha, our ancient revolutionary friend, and if you forget it, you'll hear it again from the mouth of the rebel buddha you're living with right now.

It's vital always to bear in mind that we practise for the sake of all other beings, and that the enormity of this aspiration is what makes dharma practice both extremely powerful and inexhaustible, virtually guaranteeing that the result will be infinitely beneficial.

Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?

The philosopher's stone which turned a mobster in Newport, Kentucky into a pillar of the community in Las Vegas, Nevada was "philanthropy.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

Happiness doesn't come to you; you join happiness on the way to doing something for others.

Kindness, more kindness, and even after that more kindness. I assure you it is the only hope.

Now, what is the good of driblets? To go through life having done one thing — to have raised one person from the abyss; not these puny gifts of shillings and blankets — making the grey more grey. No doubt people will think me extraordinary.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others.

One can, in fact, do nothing at all for love, although one can do everything out of love.

birini sevmek de i?te, kendi kanad?ndan, uçmaya yarayan o tek bir kemi?i ç?kar?p ba?kas?na vermektir, gönül r?zas?yla, gülerek, korkmadan.

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.

For all that ye may ever keep is just what you give away, and that you give away is advice, counsel, manner of life you live yourself." The manner in which you treat your fellow man, your patience, your brotherly love, your kindness, your gentleness. That you give away, that is all that ye may possess in those other realms of consciousness.

First, know thine own ideal - spiritual, mental and material; not as to what ye would have others do, but what ye would do for others.

Be happy--be in the attitude of ever being helpful to others. This will bring that peace within that is the promise from Him.

She was, so to speak, an impersonal creature, because of her great heart; a woman who did not belong to herself: God seemed to have made her only to give her to others.

All for love, and nothing for reward.