Quotes About Altruism

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

If your suffering splashes others, those around you, those for whom you represent a reason to live, then you must kill it, choke it.

Once we begin to regard the well-being of others as integral to our own, we overcome the paralysis of competing rights, which rationalizes innocent suffering.

We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.

Help each other. That is the only way to survive.

Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.

intercession is the highest expression of love - it is pure giving, teach me such love dear Lord

En el interior de cada uno de nosotros hay una capacidad inimaginable para la bondad, para dar sin buscar recompensa, para escuchar sin hacer juicios, para amar sin condiciones.

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

People are stupid. Why are they so stupid? There is an algorithm for the way humans were designed: love and be loved. Follow it and you're happy. Fight against it and you're not. It's so simple, it's hard to understand.

Jesus teaches us to give richly, serve sacrificially, and love unconditionally.

It's not what you get, but what you give that is God's true measure of a life.

You can recognize the people who live for others by the haunted look on the faces of the others.")

You can recognize the people who live for others by the haunted look on the faces of the others. I would so much rather you wrote a book in order to entertain yourself than to help me. Or if your subject matter is darker and more serious, I would prefer that you made your art in order to save yourself or to relive yourself of some great psychic burden, rather than to save or relieve us.

repeatedly give up their own health or their own time or their own best interests on behalf of what they perceive as the greater good—perhaps in order to consistently reinforce an imperative sense of specialness, of chosenness, of connection.

It reminds me of this wonderful adage from the British columnist Katharine Whitehorn: "You can recognize the people who live for others by the haunted look on the faces of the others.

Why did anyone ever act beyond the scope of base self-interest?

You can recognize the people who live for others by the haunted look on the faces of the others.") I would so much rather that you wrote a book in order to entertain yourself than to help me. Or if your subject matter is darker and more serious, I would prefer that you made your art in order to save yourself, or to relieve yourself of some great psychic burden, rather than to save or relieve us.

But I disappear into the person I love. I am the permeable membrane. If I love you, you can have everything. You can have my time, my devotion, my ass, my money, my family, my dog, my dog's money, my dog's time—everything.

for I have learned that noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them)

It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.

kind ladies smiled, reason or no. They smiled, not because they were happy but because they wished to make happy.

The history of socialistic ventures, shows that ordinary men are seldom capable of pure ideal altruism for any considerable time together, and that the exceptions are to be found only when masterful fervour of a small band of religious enthusiasts makes material concerns to count for nothing in comparison with the higher faith.

Generosity is to help a deserving person without his request, and if you help him after his request, then it is either out of self-respect or to avoid rebuke.