Quotes About Altruism

El arte más noble, es la de hacer felices a los demás

When you do something nice for somebody, it is just like walking around a temple. It is just like saying a prayer.

I'm not sure she's ready," Brian added, "to put someone else first.

Compassion is sexy, and it's good karma.

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends.

My core religious beliefs include this simple article of faith: the God who gave all of us life wants us to do the same for each other.

To be faithful, he wrote, a person had to be concerned less about himself and more about caring for his neighbor.

Joy connects us to something larger than ourselves," Beethoven explained, "while happiness is something more personal, something a little more selfish perhaps.

A good improviser is someone who is awake, not entirely self-focused, and moved by a desire to do something useful and give something back and who acts upon this impulse.

you get through terrible things trying to make them better for other people

it's your actual act of service and going out of your way that makes you stand apart from everybody else.

Unless people have a vision of something beyond the bounds of their own natures, they cannot transcend their self-interest.

To allow someone, anyone, to suffer is the greatest sin there is.

Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle.

But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.

sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.

Sabía muy bien que la crueldad no ayudaba a hacer girar el mundo.

Love is the willingness to do anything for someone [...] Even at detriment to yourself.

Love is the willingness to do anything for someone," I said. "Even at detriment to yourself.

few men acted even for their own good, let alone the good of others.

The smallest deed is greater than the grandest intention.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and thereby extend their hand.

It's not that successful people are givers; it is that givers are successful people.

Because a person wants to know that there's a person in the world who would do something if they could." She takes a ragged breath. "Even if they can't.