Quotes About Altruism

The errors which proceed from a spirit of benevolence are the worst.

Our moral values, our emotions, our loves are no less real for being part of nature, for being shared with the animal world, or for being determined by the evolution which our species has undergone over millions of years. Rather, they are more valuable as a result of this: they are real. They are the complex reality of which we are made. Our reality is tears and laughter, gratitude and altruism, loyalty and betrayal, the past which haunts us and serenity.

Just like a weak muscle, compassion strengthens with training. Almost anyone can learn to be more compassionate and kinder with themselves and others.

Authentic happiness can only come from the long-term cultivation of wisdom, altruism, and compassion, and from the complete eradication of mental toxins, such as hatred, grasping, and ignorance.

Teach me to feel another's woe To hide the fault I see That mercy I to others shew That mercy shew to me.95 –1787

Perhaps the greatest thing you can achieve is to love without demanding anything in return.

It is not the same thing to be good and to be kind.

Be more generous to others than you would ever expect anyone to be to you.

When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him drink.

He that lends, gives.

All worldly joys go less To the one joy of doing kindnesses.

By rebuilding community, we become proud of our society, proud of our institutions, proud of our nations, proud of ourselves. By coming together we discover who we are. We ignite our capacity for empathy and altruism. Togetherness and belonging allow us to become the heroes of the story.

The occasional kindness will spare you all sorts of trouble down the road.

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." George Santos

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

When we are centered on giving, we also receive, because our personal anxieties begin to dissipate from our thoughts. When we recognize that what is in the best interests of another is also of complete benefit to us, we gain inner tranquillity, if only briefly, because for that moment we have left our personal hell behind. The

She pushed a strand of white hair under the scarf. Surely, it seemed to Sweeney and Wettlaufer, she was the essence of the good deed unselfishly performed, the deed that could save the world if the world wanted saving.

No matter how strange it may look, most people are actually trying to be helpful.* That

Guard within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness; know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself.

A good man showeth favor, and lendeth.