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Quotes About Altruism

The Covey believe you're put on earth to reduce the misery, not add to it. Do you think the Hunger Games are right?" she asked.
~ Suzanne Collins
That's when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years. But there are much worse games to play.
~ Suzanne Collins
magnanimousness.
~ Suzanne Collins
How many times would you do it, you think? How many times would you sacrifice yourself for good?" "Every time," I answer automatically.
~ Suzanne Young
True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.
~ Suze Orman
Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.
~ Swami Sivananda
Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Do good because it is good to do good. Ask no more.
~ Swami Vivekananda
If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine. . . .
~ Swami Vivekananda
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant. One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant, because he knows that the body is nothing.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Serve man Serve god
~ Swami Vivekananda
the easiest way to make ourselves happy is to see that others are happy.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Do something good for someone every day.
~ Jesse White
For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
~ Patrick Wilson
I believe in one thing: that anyone who is able to do something good for someone, I mean, should be praised.
~ Ravi Shankar
We only have so much life left. Before I do die, I want to do something good for people.
~ Michael Huffington
Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
~ Edward Albert
I think we forget sometimes how blessed we are to be able to help others and make a difference!
~ Gautam Rode
Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.
~ Tony Snow
Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
~ Karen Armstrong