Quotes About Altruism

It's better to give before you receive.

I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.

He had that basic integrity that is so rare as to be mistaken for altruism.

In life your rewards come from the gifts you give to others.

As far as I was concerned, the best thing one could do for the poor was to not add one's self to their number.

Compassion is more than empathy; it is the living expression of the Golden Rule, to treat others as you would have them treat you. Compassion is the practice of empathy.

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Buddhist discipline is designed to transmute trishna, or egoic narcissism, into Karuna, Divine Narcissism; that is, to transmute self-love, which excludes love of others, into Self-love, which is love of others.

No matter what her sins in a former life, may her illness, her pain, be transferred to me.

Ask any decent person what he thinks matters most in human conduct: five to one his answer will be "kindness."

The one who comes to question himself cares for mankind.

Humanity is a good thing. Perhaps we can arrange the murder of a sizable number of people to save it.

Compassion is not a matter of charity, pity, or sympathy. It is a result of seeing the interconnectedness of all things and recognizing that this is a participatory universe in which we are all one.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God.

There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

Give away all that thou hast, then shalt thou receive." Often, as I was writing

In the act of sacrifice the consciousness gives up its power and possessions in the interests of the unconscious.

I've come to realize something that for three weeks in my life I'd begun to doubt: There are good people in the world. Good people, kind people. xxx They all could have chosen to be cold, cruel, indifferent. That would have been easy. Brutality, I think, comes naturally to human beings. But they chose to be good, even if what they did could be questioned within the strict confines of the law.

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