Quotes About Altruism

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all

I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying... . . . It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life happiness, freedom and peace of mind are always attained by giving them to someone else.

When the satisfaction or security of another person becomes as important to one as one's own, then a state of love exists.

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. -Corinthians 13:1

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

T 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.

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much. Daphne Rose Kingma Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

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

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another.