Quotes About Altruism

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

The goal of radicalism is to improve the human condition, not to prove one's own moral superiority.

Real love would not take more than it gave. It would not be selfish.

But in her seventy and more years, she had learned that the risks taken for others gave the greatest rewards.

If they could not understand the words about Jesus then we Christians should show them what He was like by the way we lived. I remembered He had said, 'If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.' So this was the beginning of what I called 'walking the extra mile'. There seemed to be a lot of Christians who did not mind walking one, not many who could be bothered to walk two, and no one who wanted to walk three. Those in need that I met seemed to need a marathon.

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

I cannot respond to the call, the request, the obligation, or even the love of another, without sacrificing the other other, the other others

La atracción por la utilidad es tan irresistible, que vemos personas dispuestas a todo por el placer de dar sus comodidades a quienes se les metió en la cabeza que no podrían vivir sin su auxilio.

Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

Pourquoi donne-t-on? Pour se relier, pour rompre la solitude et faire partie de la chaîne à nouveau, pour se brancher sur la vie, pour faire circuler les choses dans un système vivant, pour sentir qu'on fait partie de quelque chose de plus vaste et notamment de l'humanité chaque fois on fait un don à un inconnu.

I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

When a man is rescued from selfish desire his mind is unencumbered, and he is free to work for humanity.

Joy cannot remain with the selfish; it is wedded to Love.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Blessed are you when you pray for others. Shame on you when you pray out of selfishness and greed (311).

Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.

Self-seeking breeds loneliness; self-forgetfulness breeds fullness.

Times of difficulty arise because people are lovers of themselves and lovers of money and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of good and lovers of God.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.