Quotes About Altruism

even small acts of generosity, especially when motivated by the best intention, can become causes for much greater wealth in the future.

bodhisattva, a Sanskrit term that in Buddhism refers to an enlightened being.

May my every action of body, speech, and mind today be a cause for me to become enlightened, so that I may help all other beings attain this same state.

May this act of generosity be a cause for me to become enlightened, so that I may help all other beings attain this same state.

Little by little it dawned on me that there was a purpose to life. That we had the chance to use this precious existence to develop our most altruistic motives and compassionate instincts. To be the best that we could be!

If it's transformation we seek, the feeling of giving must be authentic. It must touch our heart.

Be good. Do something good.

He once told me, Instead of scoring thirty goals a season, why don't you score twenty-five and help someone else to score fifteen? That way the team's ten goals better off.

there is no need to pay homage to the product of selfish genes - as though self-replicating DNA from the old Darwinian era were some sort of secular equivalent to Providence.

Where there is no love put love and you will find love.

He's so grateful I think he's going to cry, and it makes me feel good to be able to help. That's if I'm able to help.

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

When doing the heroic thing, the right thing, conflicts with your personal power, and you choose the right thing over the personal power thing, you have begun to understand what Agape is. It's thankless, it's difficult, yet it's what the greatest songs are sung of.

If you want to be happy, cultivate a passion, be part of something bigger than yourself (have a Cause other than that of yourself), avoid self-absorption and self-obsession, know thyself via knowing others and connecting with others. Above all, connect to more than yourself and your immediate nearest and dearest.

Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.

Unselfish and noble acts are the most radiant epochs of the biography of souls.

They may have only had one pence to spend, but their hearts beamed with gold.

Love is not something you feel. It's something you do.

Besides helping the person prayed for, it is likely that prayer benefits the person doing the praying. Studies show that regular acts of altruism prolong our lives and improve our own happiness.29 Prayer is good medicine for the person doing the praying as well as the receiver.

altruistic side effects include reduced stress; improved immune system functioning; a sense of joy, peace, and well-being; and even relief from physical and emotional pain.

Heroes. Brave men and women who lay down their lives for someone else... Our culture understands heroism. But we don't understand martyrs.

If there is one thing I have learnt in my years of Good Works, it is that thinking of others can be a blessed respite from thinking of oneself.

The things we do for our friends.

If you want to heal Heal othersAnd smile or weepAt this happy reversal of fate