Quotes About Altruism

I tend to make my joy a private experience and hoard all the fruit for myself, forgetting that the tree doesn't eat its own fruit but presents it to others.

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins caused by the lack of it.

Dying is this: When there is a fruit or something sweet or good to taste, the child comes to it's mother and says "Will you give it to me?" Although it would have given pleasure to the mother to eat it, she gives it to the child. The eating of it by the child is enjoyed by the mother. That is death. She enjoys her life in the joy of another. Those who rejoice in the joy of another at their own expense have taken the first step towards true life.

I've always thought the most effective method of distribution is to give your work away.

But just as natural disaster brought out the best in some people, it brought out the worst in others.

one of my biggest illusions was that other people were meant to assuage my anxiety by filling some lack that I was responsible for filling myself. If I wanted to give, the giving had to be "for fun and for free." The giving couldn't be out of guilt, nor because I secretly wanted to get something back, nor because I wanted the other person to respond in such a way as to satisfy my longing to be useful. Thérèse

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. —Aesop

Sacred love is selfless, seeking not its own. The lover serves his beloved and seeks perfect communion of oneness with her.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

They would see it through together, the two of them, her strength added to his. The aggregate—by the peculiar alchemy of their love—was greater than the sum of the parts.

A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.

Doing charity work is always cool. It's always a good thing.

Another definition of a hero is someone who is concerned about other people's well-being, and will go out of his or her way to help them -- even if there is no chance of a reward. That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero.

What is love? To be delighted by the happiness of another.

Write me as one that loves his fellow men.

Hungry people should be fed. It takes some people a long time to figure this out.

Don't talk nonsense," Esmé said crossly. "If we give money to poor people, then they won't be poor anymore.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

Wir werden nicht geliebt, weil wir so gut sind, sondern weil diejenigen, die uns lieben gut sind.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.