Quotes About Altruism

If you wished to be loved, love.

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.

Charity consists not so much on HOW MUCH WE GIVE to the person but on HOW MUCH WE KEEP FOR OURSELVES

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Love that is hoarded moulds at lastUntil we know some dayThe only thing we ever haveIs what we give away.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

Love, and you shall be loved

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends (John 15:13).

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee

Goodness is love in action, love with its hand to the plow, love with the burden on its back, love following his footsteps who went about continually doing good.

There is no greater love than this. There is no greater gift that can ever be given. To be willing to die, so another might live -- there is no greater lover than this.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

Loving is the only sure road out of darkness, the only serum known that cures self-centeredness

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost

Love has a hem to her garment that reaches the very dust. It sweeps the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love.

If you wish to be loved, love

To love a thing means wanting it to live