Quotes About Altruism

Goodness is not its own reward in this world. Those who help are sometimes destroyed first

The "peace which comes from selflessness," Karen Armstrong explains, "is a condition that those of us who are still enmeshed in the cravings of egotism . . . cannot imagine.

Instead she was struck by the thought that she'd never felt worthy. That was the reason she was always rescuing the world. She was trying to earn her way into heaven. Barring that, she was trying to earn her way into happiness.

Ordinary goodness is fraught with veins of vanity and self-interest and above all with pleasure--because goodness makes you feel more alive.

In real love4 you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

Our intelligence, even our genius, is not given to us so we can brag or take credit for it. It is given to us so that we can be of service to others in some meaningful way.

Being in Love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!

If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal

Edwin must have extended himself to this woman who the world would never know existed. His compassion for others had a strange effect on me. Every time I learned of some help he gave to someone, I felt he was giving the kindness to me.

Love wasn't a selfish thing. It was the kindest, most generous impulse a man could have.

What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.

I lined a fishing net with heavy-gauge plastic. Inside I placed what I thought was the right amount of nesting material for two such enormous birds. It approximated to three days' fuel. This was no insignificant amount and I knew that I might be colder because I had given it away. But what is a few days of feeling cold compared to a new albatross in the World?..

A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.

Focus on someone else's problems for a change, I instructed myself. You need the practice. From now on you'll have to live in a world you didn't make up. Horrible thought.

We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors.

I'm looking for someone who will light candles, not just curse the darkness.

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

Mary Jo Meadows defines compassion as "the quivering of the heart in response to another's suffering" and notes that "compassionate beings . . . cannot bear to see suffering and remain unengaged.

The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one's existence, to have a good heart. —The 14th Dalai Lama

Un hombre no hará nada si no se olvida de sí mismo.

the only thing I was to do while living was to love everyone. That, she let me know, is the purpose of life.

Nothing remains to me except to be someone who has never acted in her own best interest, and who has never known a greedy passion except one: to cherish.

Most people who choose to do something on the basis of what other people need make themselves misera­ble.