Quotes About Altruism

My understanding of my faith is that - through a Christian framework - part of what we are called to do is to lay down our own self-interests, after the model of divinity that comes into this world in the form of Christ and lays down his life. And in order to do that, you have to care about something or someone more than yourself.

The martyr sacrifices herself entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for she makes the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

It is, in fact, asking for trouble if you are more altruist than the society that surrounds you

Edith Ethel with the sweetest possible smile would beg the pillows off a whole hospital ward full of dying…. She

But charity begins surely with the char!

Evil claims to be natural, and this is the heart of its deceit. Sin rarely declares itself as sin, and the sinner tends to claim some high motive and some pink-and-white complexion for each decay. Each enslavement to sin calls itself a new form of liberation as it tightens its chains. Rare is the tyrant who does not cloak his extravagant selfishness in the titles of altruism and affected goodwill.

Il giorno in cui voi non brucerete più d'amore, molti altri moriranno di freddo.

Ben kendimi dualar?n buyruÄŸuna sokmam hiçbir zaman. Dualar insan için yap?lm??t?r, insan dualar için deÄŸil. syf:186

It had never occurred to his honest, simple little mind that there were people who could forget kindnesses.

Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart

Dearest says that is the best kind of goodness; not to think about yourself, but to think about other people.

is the best kind of goodness; not to think about yourself, but to think about other people. That is just the way you are, isn't it?

Nature having made her for a giver- had not the least idea what she made meant to poor Becky, and how wonderful a benefactor she seemed. If Nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things you of that- warm things, kind things, sweet things- help and comfort and laughter- and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.

send some of their shillings to buy things.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.

We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.

The gift is the blessing of the giver.

Quem governa assume uma responsabilidade irrevogável pelos governados. Você é um fazendeiro. Isso exige, em certos momentos, um ato de amor altruísta que talvez pareça apenas divertido para aqueles a quem você governa.

No ha existido jamás un rebelde verdaderamente desinteresado. Todos son unos hipócritas, conscientes de ello o inconscientes, que mas da.

Quem governa assume uma responsabilidade irrevogável pelos governados. Você é um fazendeiro. Isso exige, em certo momentos, um ato de amor altruísta que talvez pareça apenas divertido para aqueles a quem você governa.

El regalo es la bendición de quien lo hace»

Le ha salvado y al hacerlo se ha sacrificado

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.