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Quotes About Altruism

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
~ Sojourner Truth
He, however, lost nothing by his kindness
~ Solomon Northup
We must eliminate the individual tendency to selfishness that snares the soul, shrinks the heart, and darkens the mind.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
As we lose ourselves in service to others, we find greater spirituality and happiness.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
World-peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power.
~ Sri Chinmoy
The body has to be utilized for service to others. More bliss can be got from serving others than from merely serving oneself.
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Service broadens your vision widens your awareness. Deepens your compassion.
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Human evolution has two steps - from being somebody to being nobody; and from being nobody to being everybody. This knowledge can bring sharing and caring throughout the world.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When you wish good for others, good things come back to you. This is the law of nature.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission;to be of service to them whenever they requ
~ St Francis of Assisi
She] personally tended the unhappy and impoverished victims of hunger and disease. I have often seen her washing wounds which others – even men – could hardly bear to look at ... She founded a hospital and gathered there the sufferers from the streets, and gave them all the attention of a nurse... How often she carried home, on her shoulders, the dirty and poor who were plagued with epilepsy! How she washed the pus from sores which others could not even behold.
~ St Jerome
So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.
~ St. Augustine
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
Charity is the root of all good works.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.
~ St. Francis Of Assisi
Love is shown more in deeds than in words.
~ St. Ignatius of Loyola
To give, and not to count the cost to fight, and not to heed the wounds, to toil, and not to seek for rest, to labor, and not to ask for any reward, save that of knowing that we do thy will
~ St. Ignatius of Loyola
When one loves, one does not calculate.
~ St. Thérèse de Lisieux
Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
~ St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Wszyscy chc? naszego dobra.Nie dajmy go sobie zabra?!
~ Stanis?aw Jerzy Lec
We behave morally when we improve the lives of all we can affect.
~ Stefan Klein
No one acts altruistically without regard to the costs.
~ Stefan Klein
Exalt yourself by devoting yourself to others, enrich yourself by making everyone's destiny your own, by enduring and understanding every facet of human suffering through your pity.
~ Stefan Zweig
It is my opinion that you should lend yourself to others and give yourself only to yourself.
~ Stefan Zweig