Quotes About Altruism

We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves.

It's amazing what a little money can do when it's spent on the right reason.

It's a great feeling knowing you've helped someone. That's what I've spent my life doing and my practice.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

Prayer must be broad in its scope - it must plead for others. Intercession for others is the hallmark of all true prayer. When prayer is confined to self and to the sphere of one's personal needs, it dies by reason of its littleness, narrowness and selfishness.

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

I was very spiritual as a kid. I think I felt and thought about things a lot more deeply than most of the other kids my age. I wanted to help people.

I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I'm doing is not good.

Spirituality, for me, is acquiring and giving happiness without hurting anyone.

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.

A woman who loves her husband is merely paying her bills. A woman who loves her lover gives alms to the poor.

A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover's world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian's world revolves around the world.

The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.

Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.

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

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to.

Most men worry about their own bellies and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls and other people's bellies.

Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.