Quotes about Altruism

It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.

Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable.

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 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.

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity—awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime.

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.

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

Servants focus on others, not themselves. This is true humility: not thinking less of ourselves but thinking of ourselves less