Quotes About Altruism

They alone live, who live for others.

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.

I take my hat off to the hero who dashes into a burning house and saves his neighbor's child; but I shake his hand if he has risked squandering a precious five seconds to find and save, together with the child, its favorite toy.

She was so kind, was Rita, such a good sport, that I daresay she would have given herself to any pathetic creature or fallacy, an old broken tree or a bereaved porcupine, out of sheer chumminess and compassion.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.

The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

We were designed to love and when we do, something good develops inside. We feel clean, rich, whole. Even better, we become less concerned with how we feel and more concerned with the lives of others.

Charity should always be a constant.

I tore the crusts off my grilled cheese sandwich and set them aside to throw out for the birds. Their motives were pure -- hunger, thirst, shelter -- and they didn't mind leftovers.

what a thing to do—to give up your whole self for someone else. To love someone that much. To be always and forever there, no matter what. To hold on like that.

Friends don't count the cost of favors.

Sometimes when we forget to do things for others, it's because we're too wrapped up in our own problems.

I loved everyone who said yes to the world and tried to make it better instead of worse, because so much in the world was ugly- and just about all the ugly parts were due to humans.

Sometimes when we forget to do things for others, it's because we're too wrapped up in our own problems. When actually, what we need to forget is ourselves. Change is healthy, right?

Sabe, às vezes, quando esquecemos de fazer as coisas para os outros, (...) é porque estamos envolvidos demais com os nossos problemas. (...) Quando, na verdade, precisamos esquecer de nós mesmos.

This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.

There is goodness in the world, Marcus, and kindness. You cannot forget that." Goodness? Kindness?

Instead of worrying about the question of suffering in the world, spend your time alleviating it!

Helping someone else is the best way to ensure your own survival. It takes you out of yourself. It helps you to rise above your fears. Now you're a rescuer, not a victim. And seeing how your leadership and skill buoy others up gives you more focus and energy to persevere. The cycle reinforces itself: You buoy them up, and their response buoys you up. Many people who survive alone report that they were doing it for someone else (a wife, boyfriend, mother, son) back home.

We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them

I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.

She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.

when personally affected by the issues, even idealists often end up making selfish choices with far-reaching effects. It's human nature,