Quotes about Altruism
The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
— Albert Schweitzer
I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying... . . . It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
— Mother Teresa
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
— GK Chesterton
My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
— Mother Teresa
If you wished to be loved, love.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
— Mother Teresa
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
— Mother Teresa
Love, and you shall be loved
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee
— John of the Cross
My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind
— Mahatma Gandhi
Love has a hem to her garment that reaches the very dust. It sweeps the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.
— Mother Teresa