Quotes About Altruism

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more.

Only those who serve with love are able to protect!

To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others.

Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.

Love is no love which asks for a return.

Duty without love is deplorable.

Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.

Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer.

Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.

Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

Much of our love is confined to mere lip service and dreams of good deeds accomplished, but true love must be expressed in unselfish acts of kindness that bring others closer to our Heavenly Father.

True love is not selfish. In time it accustoms itself to anything which secures happiness for its object.

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

Generosity is a practical expression of Love.

One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .

By meditating on affectionate love and wishing love for just one moment we accumulate greater merit than we would by giving food three times every day to all those who are hungry in the world.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

Unless you are oblivious to your own suffering, you have no right to be oblivious to other people's suffering.

To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.

Freedom... leads those who have more than they need to share with those who have less

The presence of real love in the world inspires me.

We love most those who we serve most.

The only love language is 'die to self.'