Quotes About Altruism

Duty compels us to care about people that we will never meet.

En el mundo hay personas que solo piensan en ellas mismas. Les da igual lo que les pase a los demás, con tal de conseguir lo que quieren. Menosprecian a los demás para sentirse importantes. Y también hay gente que hace lo contrario, que es capaz de imaginar lo que sienten los demás y se esfuerza por evitar hacerles daño.

There are people in the world who think only about themselves. They don't care what happens to other people so long as they get what they want. They put other people down to make themselves feel important. Then there are people who do the opposite; who are able to imagine how others must feel, and make sure that they don't do things that hurt people. Which kind of person do you want to be?

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Morality, as far as I could see, originates in atheism and the realization that no higher power is coming along to feed the hungry or lift the fallen. Mercy is left entirely to us.

nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

the most remarkable feature of human culture is its capacity to reach beyond the self and encompass the collective good; yet

Hope involves giving a great deal of yourself away.

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing, therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. —Proverbial saying

If you live only for yourself, dying is an especially scary proposition.

work of supererogation

Americans have always been idealists. They want their country to act for pure motives

When being loving becomes even more important than being loved, true devotion is experienced. A loving that does not depend on getting what we want but on offering what the world and our hearts cry out for.

God will not free us until we free others.

Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.

The history of the world teaches that the power of joy in people doesn't come in getting, it always comes in giving, contributing, adding more. The more you give, the more you live. If you're about something better, live for something higher than self.

Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come before a sense of genuine sharing.

For Melinda and for me, the challenge is the same: how can we do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we have

not a day goes by that we can't at least serve one other human being by making deposits of unconditional love.

newborn into the world. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others, even for people who offend or do not love in return.

As long as you feel you are serving others, you do the job well. When you are concerned only with helping yourself, you do it less well—a law as inexorable as gravity.

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

You cannot live a perfect day," he said, "without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.