Quotes About Altruism

Jesus quickly decided, as these men all decide, that the power must be used for the benefit of the race.

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others. --- Charles James's Diary

The surest way to minimize your own burdens is to carry someone else's.

The measure of love isn't how much you want someone. It's revealed in what you want for them.

Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest. Zeke

Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness – sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.

Kindness may look for something in return, but that doesn't make it any less kind.

He believes that, just as pretending to be brave can lead to acts of real bravery, seeing the good in other people improves the chances that they will reveal their better selves.

Three persons is the necessary minimum for unselfish love betweenpersons of some kind.

However, being moral can include not only acts of kindness but also deeds of conformity and violence.

Rather than focusing narrowly on the dangers of peer pressure, adults should ask themselves whether they are helping children find causes and commitments that are larger than the self that are worth sacrificing for.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Christians as a segment of the general population are ten times more likely to contribute money and resources to the aid of another individual than a non-Christian

Pour vous faire aimer, demandez un service.

In spiritual matters, the only real glory is in the renunciation of glorifying self.

I want her to be happy. It's worth sacrificing myself." -Eddie

He almosted smiled. "There you go again. Why? Why do yo keep helping me?" There were a million answers on my lips, everything from It's the right thing to do to I don't know. Instead, I said, "Because I want to.

Nothing," she said softly. "A queen must possess nothing to rule because she has to give everything she has to her people. Even her life.

You think that I'm so manipulative and scheming, Miss Sage? It's all for them. For my loved ones first. My people second. And yes, I suppose I'm in the mix there too, but don't think for an instant I wouldn't sacrifice myself if it could save someone I love. And don't think for an instant that I wouldn't do terrible, unspeakable things if it could save someone I love.

We loved each other but weren't so selfish about our love that we could simply turn our backs on someone we cared about.