Quotes About Altruism

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it.

To love and to be loved, one must do good to others. The inevitable condition whereby to become blessed, is to bless others.

To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love.

Love all, serve all, feed all.

Love is the wish to give, not to receive.

Love is giving everything and taking nothing

Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.

Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Love beautifies the giver and elevates the receiver.

Small things done with great love will change the world.

We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.