Quotes About Altruism

I wish to be, I can be, I have the right to be, I have the ability to be. I swear to myself that this will never be for my personal profit, but to help others. I wish to be, to help others. This is to be understood as a vow.

When for self, prayer and wish no good; only work good for self. But when wish with heart for other, can help.

I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the world.

Had he been sent to them like a kind of sun, pouring light into the world without asking for anything in return?

The individual's striving for his own gain, in fine, without an equal emphasis on social welfare, no longer automatically brings good to the community.

Il vero amore c'è quando esiste solo l'altro.»

Tout ce que je veux dire, c'est que si les hommes cédaient toujours à ce qu'il y a en eux de plus humain, il y a longtemps qu'ils ne seraient plus des hommes.

Denver had taught me that to love a man enough to help him, you have to forfeit the warm, self-righteous glow that comes from judging.

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them,

Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.

By the way, everything would be much easier to live through if only I would not forget the basic rule I've made for my life: To be kind and good is the main thing! Plainly and simply, to be good—that resolves and unites everything and is better than all cleverness and insistence on "being right.

Your faith rests on the future of yourself and others as individuals, mine in the future and fate of our successors. It seems to me that yours is the more selfish

Religion should be kindness. Faith is love.

We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results

Jane seemed to just like her. She liked her without wanting anything in return:

I have a theory about the assists we get in life. Only rarely can we repay those people who helped us, but we can pass that help along to others.

Forgiving's a choice you make—a gift you give to somebody even if they don't deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away.

So long as there is breath in me, I will serve life—serve life—serve life.

You must have something in order to give it up.

Compassion is the religion of the heart.

There is no prayer greater than service.

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

Love isn't what you feel. It's what you do.

But there's a kind of vanity in thinking you can nurse the world. There's a kind of vanity in goodness.