Quotes about Altruism

The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others.

And what more sublime delight than to... share our bread with one to whom misfortune has left none!

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Self-seeking is self-destruction

He who is daily living in harshness, impurity, or unhappiness is day by day adding to the sum of the world's misery; whereas he who continually lives in goodwill, and does not depart from happiness, is day by day increasing the sum of the world's happiness, and this independently of any religious beliefs which these may or may not hold.

Much that is commonly called sympathy is personal affection. To love them who love us is human bias and inclination; but to love them who do not love us is divine sympathy.

Give up that narrow cramped self that seeks to render all things subservient to its own petty interests, and you will enter into the company of the angels, into the very heart and essence of universal Love.

Good deeds are the highest notes in life's symphony.

What you seek for others you find for yourself.

Generosity is inverted prosperity.

Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.

To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man.