Quotes About Altruism

Dante assigned the hottest circle of hell to those who do nothing in the face of evil. Life shouldn't be about pursuing pleasure or being safe, being comfortable. It's about helping others, and reaching for what's right, and trying to make this a better world.

If you live only for yourself, you already have chosen to die. And since nothing will cure you, even though on the outside you may appear to have been born and continue living, you will die, you are already dead.

Am I my brother's keeper?

Segismundo; que aun en sueños no se pierde el hacer bien.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

CHRIST KNEW IT WAS IMPORTANT TO SERVE, EVEN IF DOING SO INTERRUPTED HIS PERSONAL AGENDA.

Aquí estamos para ayudarnos unos a otros; lo que pasa es que no se puede, porque no queremos. Ésa es la vida.

I thought helping someone else might take me out of my own head for a while.

This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.

Let us weep," Rondon would tell them, "for I loved this man who has perished for my sake. But I command you to do as he did. Never shoot." Rondon believed that his mission in protecting and pacifying the Indians was larger than his own life, larger than any of their lives. He would rather die than surrender his ideals, and he obliged his men to follow suit.

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. Ben Sweetland

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. Mother Teresa

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

You can't satisfy all the desires of those who ask, but you can translate some of the care you have inside of yourselves to action on the outside," he told everyone one last time. "And that's what really matters.

Life is worthless unless you give back more than you take.

May I be mindful both making and keeping commitments that they be springboards to liberation, instead of suffering, for all sentient beings.

It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.

Es el tipo de favor que se habría brindado a hacer sin que tuvieran que pedírselo.

The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

On the surface one might think that if one simply concerns oneself with altruistic intent and future lifetimes, the practical aspects of this life will not be accomplished, and one will be a failure. This simply isn't true. On the contrary, when one really does renounce or let go of this lifetime everything is taken care of by force of the deeper motivation.

Real love never fails, never fades, and the greatest expression of it is giving.

Life isn't about what you gain; it's about what you give.

That was when I found out that the best way in the world to make yourself feel better when you have hit bottom is to try to get somebody else to feel better. There are certain things in life that are truly worth knowing, and that is one of the big ones.