Quotes About Altruism

The good young man went out and I felt the great relief that simple kindness can work. It is a salve of the spirit, surely.

But I refuse to say. Because I love him, and you'd give anything, wouldn't you? You'd give anything for someone you love not to die alone and in scalding agony?

Properly speaking, altruism is an absurdity. Women are self-sacrificing in direct proportion to their incapacity to offer anything but this sacrifice. They sacrifice what they never had: a self. The cry of the deserted woman, 'What have I done to deserve this?' reveals at once the false emotional economy that she has been following.

When abandoned women follow their fleeing males with tear-stained faces, screaming you can't do this to me, they reveal that all that they have offered in the name of generosity and altruism has been part of an assumed transaction, in which they were entitled to a certain payoff.

Charity sees the need not the cause.

God gives, but man must open his hand.

Giving a brief sermon, the Abbess once said, 'A hot furnace does not need to be heated. A loving heart does not need to be loved. Being loving is more important than being loved.

Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed.

In the struggle for everyone's happiness, the first happiness one found was one's own

Essere felici è già una bella cosa ma fare felici gli altri col fatto di essere felici noi è la cosa più bella del mondo.

the way we ignore the suffering of others and close our ears to their cries of pain. The way we disrespect our fellow man and are selfish for our own needs. Much of human suffering is avoidable. But a righteous path has a high price, and many are not prepared to pay that price.

As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

You are as good-hearted as I believed," the woman said, "but you are foolish as well to take such a thing on yourself. Yet what kindhearted person does not have some foolishness about him.

when my choices are fueled by self-focused need, my best work is seldom done.

We should only be concerned with being better for the world, not the world being better for us because the former is the way to achieving the latter and the world is already best for us.

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.

Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others.

Anyone can be an angel.

A dog iz the only thing on this earth that luvs yu more than he luvs himself

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Lacking any other purpose in life, it would be good enough to live for their sake.