Quotes about Altruism
The only way to retain love is to give it away.
- Elbert Hubbard
If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
- Amy Carmichael
There is no love which does not become help.
- Paul Tillich
Here's our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
- Bob Goff
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.
- Thomas Merton
Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.
- Mother Teresa
Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.
- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.
- Henri Nouwen
Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.
- John Piper
What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.
- St. Basil
We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others.
- Thomas Merton