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Quotes About Altruism

The only solution is love.
~ Dorothy Day
But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
~ John the Apostle
From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us.
~ Pope Francis
Love comes into being through useful service to others.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
When one loves, one does not calculate.
~ Therese of Lisieux
Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sense of the beneficence of the universe.
~ Dawna Markova
The real love is when you wish to give something and not to get.
~ Bill Kaulitz
"Wholeheartedly" means that we give our time, love, and energy unstintingly.
~ Ayya Khema
Mercy requires that we learn to love others, to value their welfare more than our own!
~ John Hagee
Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.
~ Mother Teresa
The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.
~ Mother Teresa
Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict.
~ Peter Breggin
To measure the man, measure his heart.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Shower your unconditional love even if it might be a stranger
~ Sivaji Ganesan
Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.
~ Thomas Jefferson
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom; but all you do or omit should be for the honor of Love.
~ Hadewijch
It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do.
~ George Linnaeus Banks
When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
~ Anne Carson
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
~ Susan Sontag
The opposite of love is indifference to the genuine needs of others.
~ Max Anders
In the state of love, no matter what you do, it's going to be good.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)
~ Friedrich Nietzsche