Quotes About Altruism

It really is true that when you're living for you, the call to love others is always a burden for you

There is no investment as poor as investment in the kingdom of self!

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

a root cause of suffering, according to the Buddha, is our fierce sense of self-centredness. Interestingly

We are emotionally and physically healthier when we are meaningfully engaged with other people. This means engaged with others in compassionate and altruistic ways.

Stop looking for love and start showing it.

Do what helps others. Refrain from harming others. Transcend your own ignorance, clinging, hate, fear and delusion. This and only this is the dispensation of all the Buddhas.

Do good things', he murmured. 'Try to make a difference.

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

If we are able to enter the church day and night and implore God to hear our prayers, how careful we should be to hear and grant the petitions of our neighbor in need. — St. John the Almoner

There is no love which does not become help.

Mensen kunnen helpen, binnen een rechtstreeks contact, is een van de zaken die ons het meest gelukkig maken. Zorg voor onszelf loopt via zorg voor de ander, bij uitbreiding, via zorg voor de gemeenschap.

Deep-rooted happiness may require a sense of purpose. If I don't feel that I am in some small way contributing to the greater good, holding on to happiness is like carrying water in my hands.

If you want to become a saint, live to please others, if you want to become a god, live entirely to please yourself.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.

Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.

There's two ways to be selfish. You can think too much about yourself, or you can think too little about others. You're selfish both ways.

A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.

Maybe you all didn't notice,but when that hospital was about to crumble with all those innocent people inside, Thom was the only one who stopped the Wrecking Balls. The only finger I feel like pointing right now is my middle one, at all of you, bunch of ungrateful wretches, if you ask me.