Quotes About Altruism

quanto mais você se tornar um conhecedor da gratidão, menos você será vítima do ressentimento, da depressão e do desespero. A gratidão funcionará como um elixir que gradualmente dissolverá a concha dura de seu ego - sua necessidade de possuir e controlar - e transformará você num ser generoso. O senso de gratidão produz uma verdadeira alquimia espiritual, torna-nos magnânimos - de almas grandes.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

There is no better application of the Golden Rule than to help a homeless pet. In doing this, you are giving the gift of life itself. And since there is no greater gift, there can be no greater reward

Service without selfness, is not service

At other times when not quite well he would have them in for the fun of shaking his will at them. He would in his imagination cut them all out one after another and leave his money to found almshouses, till at last he was obliged to put them back, so that he might have the pleasure of cutting them out again the next time he was in a passion.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

He only does not live in vain Who all the means within his reach Employs?his wealth, his thought, his speech? T?advance the weal of other men.

The best service to mankind is to become immersed in ones True self.

Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity.

No one ever does anything out of charity," Anna went on. "Every choice we make benefits ourselves directly or indirectly. Even if it looks like a sacrifice, the alternative would be unbearable in some way. If I hadn't helped I wouldn't sleep well, and I need my sleep.

You have to do good things for people you care about.

He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

"A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit."

If we worried half as much what others are doing for us and spent twice as much time helping others, we would all be exponentially happier.

Somebody has to be prepared to be the good guy from time to time in order for the human race to prosper, though most people don't want it to be them.

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.

It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.

Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization.

Don't be a hog: the only time a hog helps the community is when he dies.

It seems to me that we spend an inordinate amount of time and attention on fixing ourselves when we could really be directing that out to serving others.

Whenever you take the time to inspire someone, to aid them in their inner search, you'll find energy will come back to you - unless you are ego tripping or you are trying to manipulate them.