Quotes about Altruism

Love has the mind of a sage, the heart of a saint, and the soul of an angel.

Give of yourself to others and others will give of themselves to you.

You become strong by lifting others up, not pulling them down.

We need to learn how to deny ourselves, so we can do that which does not come naturally—to truly love God and others.

You will find happiness only by helping others to find it.

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself.

If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God.

Those of us who attempt to act and do things for others or for the world without deepening our own self-understanding, freedom, integrity, and capacity to love, will not have anything to give others. We will communicate to them nothing but the contagion of our own obsessions, our aggressivity, our ego-centered ambitions, our delusions about ends and means.

Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.