Quotes About Altruism

Love is contagious. Be a carrier!

To know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

The focus now is not on what we are getting from the relationship but on what we can give, by way of profound filial love, faithful friendship, and spousal union. Our focus is on the Other and how to please Him.15

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

He is great who confers the most benefits.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?

If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid.

Never lose the child like wonder. It's just too important. It's what drives us. Help others.

Focus on other people, not on yourself.

Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.

Almost everybody has a good side.

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

Have you ever noticed the phenomena that humans can be at their best when things are at their worst? At such times, we can be heroic, actively compassionate, demonstratively generous, and completely selfless. Why do you suppose that is? Might it be our Ancestors and beloved Dead empowering us as allies from a higher plane of existence? Perhaps it may even be the soul taking the reins when the consciousness of the person is stunned into inaction.

aquel que se preocupa por los demás, o no tiene problemas o ha decidido olvidarlos.

Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.

You don't have to say anything in particular or do anything in particular to be helpful to people. You become a bodhisattva by wishing for your own happiness as well as the happiness of others, and by opening to your own experience in a loving way. When you love yourself and are kind enough to yourself to be who you really are, you're showing others what they need to do in order to be free.