Quotes About Altruism

There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.

Love only serves and does not calculate.

It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.

Love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.

It is nobler to love the person next to you than to love mankind in general.

Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

To love my neighbor is to assist the arising and unfolding in him of that which can harmonize the real elements of his nature.

One of the best ways to walk in love is to be a blessing to other people or simply to help them.

Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?

If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Without humility you can't love. Love means looking beyond the self to the other.

Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken

You know my God. My God is called love

Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.

Compassion is the greatest form of love humans have to offer.

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you.

Purity comes from Seva... it comes from selfless love.

In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.

Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.

The only way to retain love is to give it away.

If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else, then I know nothing of Calvary love.