Quotes About Altruism

The essence of love is to give continually, without expecting anything in return.

Love means always praying for greater happiness for everyone.

To give means to think, every single day, about what you can do to make people happy.

I have a whole set of problem-solving behaviors and I am anxious to use them, in much the same way that I would stand up on the train to give my seat to someone who seems to need it more than I do: here is something I can address, and I do, and all is well.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.

The greatest thing any one can do for God and for man is to pray.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

Be thou generous, and gentle, and forgiving; as God hath scattered upon thee, scatter thou upon others.

Dost thou desire that thine own heart should not suffer, redeem thou the sufferer from the bonds of misery.

Labour like a man, and be ready in doing kindnesses. He is a good-for-nothing fellow who eateth by the toil of another?s hand.

?yilik demek kimseye kötülü?ü dokunmamak de?il, kötülük yapacak cevheri içinde ta??mamak demektir.

Dünyada hayat?n bir tek manas? varsa o da sevmektir.Hatta mukabele edilmesini bile beklemeden sadece sevmek.Ba?ka bir insan? bahtiyar edebilmek ,kendini bahtiyar edebilmekte daha güç fakat daha insancad?r.Bugün böyle dü?ünenlere saf hatta enayi derler.Fakat ne derlerse desinler ,biz kalbimizin ve kafam?z?n do?ru buldu?u ?eyleri etraf?n ne dedi?ine bakmadan yapmal?y?z.

Dünyada kendisi için hiçbir ?eyi olmayan insan?n bile ba?kalar?na yard?m edecek bir ?eyi vard?r.

Kendi kendime: "Ne yapabilirdim? Elimden ne gelirdi? Ben kimim ki?" diyor, fakat yine kendim: "Hiç olmazsa kaçmazd?n... Hiç olmazsa dinlerdin. Kim olursan ol... Dünyada kendisi için hiçbir ?eyi olmayan bir insan?n bile ba?kalar?na yard?m edecek bir ?eyi vard?r... Hiç olmazsa bir tek sözü..." diye cevap veriyordum.

Kim olursan ol... Dünyada kendisi için hiçbir ?eyi olmayan bir insan?n bile ba?kalar?na yard?m edecek bir ?eyi vard?r... Hiç olmazsa bir tek sözü...

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

When everybody was talking about going to heaven, Gautama the Buddha said, "You say everything is fine in heaven, so what will I do there? Let me go to hell and do something to help others, because anyway I cannot suffer.

No man has believed perfectly until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

It's when you give something that you have very little of, that you truly give.

Angosciarsi profondamente per le proprie disgrazie non è proprio di chi ama l'amico ma se stesso.

That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee. - Book VI, 54.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Kindness is invincible.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.