Quotes About Altruism

As soon as your object of concern changes from yourself to someone else, your heart is released from the bondage of the self-cherishing thought. As soon as you change the object of your cherishing, there is peace in your heart.

Benefiting other sentient beings doesn't mean causing them only temporary physical and mental happiness in this life.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Witnessing kindness makes us feel compassionate, and compassion predicts helping behavior.

May the sufferings of all sentient beings and those sufferings' causes ripen upon me, and may my own self be subdued and annihilated. May my virtues ripen on all sentient beings, and may they become endowed with happiness.

May I accept upon myself the defeat / And offer to others the victory"—Chekawa

In subsequent studies, Warneken and Tomasello found that children were willing to help even when doing so involved hardship and interrupting their play. Interestingly, they also found that rewarding the children was counterproductive. The children who were rewarded for helping were later less likely to help than those who had never been rewarded. Studies also show that infants as young as six months demonstrate clear preference for toys that enact helping behavior rather than hindering.

If you do not thoroughly exchange Your own happiness with others' suffering, You will not become a buddha. Even in samsara there will be no happiness.178

Alternatively, you can recite the following when no one is around: "May the sufferings of all sentient beings and those sufferings' causes ripen upon me, and may my own self be subdued and annihilated. May my virtues ripen on all sentient beings, and may they become endowed with happiness." From the depth of your bones, cultivate the thought "O my dear mother, my dear brother [and sister] sentient beings!

He had used it as the epigram to his 1967 book 'To Seek a Newer World,' and it expressed two pillars of his faith: that everyone has a duty to alleviate suffering, and that no one can live a fully happy life while surrounded by the unaddressed misery of others.

We were not made to look inward for self-realization, but to look outwards in love. I

There is nothing more noble than putting yourself in the line of fire to save a life.

The billionaire who sits on his money and doesn't do anything for the common good - I'm not interested in that person.

I am not interested in individual glory.

I don't need money, and when I do a favor, I expect nothing back.

And all for love, and nothing for reward.

Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much.

It's from the heart. I don't really care if people see that I do it or notice that I do it or even recognize that it's me doing it. I just do it because I feel like there's a lot of people out there that need a hand, and I try to lend a hand.

Anybody who fights for human rights or to make this world a better place. Nurses, doctors, teachers: these are the people who deserve the credit these days.

It was just the DNA of my family. Giving back didn't feel like an entitlement; it was an obligation.

Having got the best of education myself, I firmly believe it is my personal obligation to give back to the community.

If you have an opportunity to help others or incite change, it feels like a moral obligation to do so.

We all have some basic obligation to one another.

I'm bothered when people don't understand that they have an obligation to use their best measure of devotion, of resources, to sacrifice for the common good.