Quotes About Altruism

When you get a blessing, you pass it on.

I really believe that if you come across something in life that could improve the life of someone else, you should pass it on.

We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.

The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that is has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history.

And so, this was the final major theme we found: that when a group of people, no matter how small or ordinary, was willing to die out to their selfish desires, the life which came out of that death was immeasurable, and continued to affect lives far into the future.

THE GREATEST JOY IN LIFE IS HELPING OTHERS. SPLURGE ON IT!

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you do is for yourself—and there isn't one. —Wei Wu Wei

If you've opened your loving to God's love, you're helping people you don't know and have never seen.

Helping is not, as conventionally thought, a charitable act that is praiseworthy to do but not wrong to omit. It is something that everyone ought to do.

So many things constrain us, from so many directions. The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain-stem imperative of self-interest. Subtle and elegant equations predict the behavior of the quantum world, but none can explain it. After four thousand years we can't even prove that reality exists beyond the mind of the first-person dreamer. We have such need of intellects greater than our own.

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

Kimse kimseye ac?masayd?, hiç bir insan ac?nacak halde bulunmazd?.

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

that the greatest happiness lies in living for others. The self and its appetites, the satisfaction of which only yields deeper hungers, are to the soul as mooring cables to an airship. To cut them willingly and without regret is to know true emancipation, the kind that cannot be granted by constitutions, proclamations, manifestos. Yes

But that meaningful respect needs to come from doing pro-social things that make life better in some way for others. It should not derive from out-drinking their buddies or doing some stupid shit better than them.

Levine found that in general, the cities with the fastest pace of life were the least helpful.

people who are predominantly present-oriented tend to be willing to help others but appear less willing or able to help themselves.

Kindness is wisdom.

The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.

I've come to believe that in life it's best to live for a purpose greater than oneself.

Friends don't leave friends to wash dishes for yetis.

It's best to give while your hand is still warm.

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

That made me remember why I got into this business in the first place-to protect people who couldn't protect themselves.