Quotes About Altruism

Self-seeking is self-destruction

He who is daily living in harshness, impurity, or unhappiness is day by day adding to the sum of the world's misery; whereas he who continually lives in goodwill, and does not depart from happiness, is day by day increasing the sum of the world's happiness, and this independently of any religious beliefs which these may or may not hold.

Much that is commonly called sympathy is personal affection. To love them who love us is human bias and inclination; but to love them who do not love us is divine sympathy.

Give up that narrow cramped self that seeks to render all things subservient to its own petty interests, and you will enter into the company of the angels, into the very heart and essence of universal Love.

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It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.

If the hope of giving is to love the living, the giver risks madness in the act of giving.

In building his company and living his life, Hewlett adhered to a simple motto that he oft repeated: "Never stifle a generous impulse.

Real generosity toward the future," as Camus famously put it, "lies in giving all to the present.

What else is there to do in this world but love other people?

Real love is unconditional.

For isn't that what unconditional love is - sacrificing a little bit of your own happiness so someone else can have theirs?

I would want everyone to love someone in the purest sense of the word - an unconditional love in which you don't expect anything in return.

I think I have a gene in me to always fight for the underdog, which I've done since I was a kid.

Relying on the power of kindness is a sensitive undertaking. The challenge is to inspire people to be kind more often without tainting the selflessness that comes from doing something nice with no ulterior motive.

I profess myself a citizen of the world, totally unfettered by the little, mean distinctions of climate or of country, which diminish the benevolence of the heart and set bounds to philanthropy.

Americans don't like to stand by while innocent people are killed and watch a human disaster unfold. It goes against our very fiber. We feel compelled to do something.

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .

Benevolence means whatever is good for your Spirit.

How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.

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.

All the joy the world contains has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains has come through wanting pleasure for oneself. Is there need for lengthy explanation?

Wenn man noch nicht den Menschen dienen kann, wie sollte man den Geistern dienen können?