Quotes About Altruism

First, self-love is already present in all people. Second, if God had wanted to command you to love yourself, he would have said, "You should love yourself and your neighbor as yourself." But he said instead, "Love your neighbor as yourself." In other words, "as yourself " means the way you already love yourself, without a commandment to do so.

See, according to this rule the good things we have from God should flow from one to the other and be common to all, so that everyone should "put on" his neighbor and so conduct himself toward him as if he himself were in the other's place.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?"

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

For most modern Western men, abandoning their families will result in increasing their dispensable income by as much as three quarters.[167] In the whole of nature, there is no arrangement that is more demanding and more altruistic.

Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.

Without a second thought, without anything except their own need to give.

To begin with, one must not cause grief to anyone, whether great or small, unbeliever or believer, and one must not give help to those who are well off.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

An open heart didn't mean every man for himself. It meant doing what was best for the greater good. It meant doing in your heart what you knew to be the right thing to do, even if, maybe especially if, it also meant saying good-bye.

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

Love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Love seeketh not itself to please, but for another gives its ease.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

You may give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,but have not love, I gain nothing.

At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given; nor how much have you won, but how much have you done; not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed; how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.

If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like now.