Quotes About Altruism

Human beings are wired to care and give and it's probably our best route to happiness.

When somebody elses happiness makes you happy, it means you are a person with a big heart.

As you forget self in service to others, you will find that, without seeking it, your own cup of happiness will be full.

Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service.

Your suffering is my suffering and your happiness is my happiness.

Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you.

No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

Happiness may be found only by helping others to find it.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.

When we understand the best way to achieve all our goals is to assist others in achieving their goals, we will find the key to lasting happiness.

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

Altruism is the best source of happiness. There is no doubt about that.

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

Happiness is not the result of circumstance. It is the result of loving others.

I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey.

Everyone's goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.

Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.

We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.

Happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found.

Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal.

Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.

Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others