Quotes about Altruism

The one thing that is most worth living for—and dying for, if need be—is the opportunity of making some one else more happy and more useful.

Then very few persons have any idea of the large number of applications for help that rich people are constantly being flooded with.

I have often heard persons condemned for not giving away money, who, to my own knowledge, were giving away thousands of dollars every year so quietly that the world knew nothing about it.

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. This

So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

Learning to live for others isn't something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission; to be of service to them whenever they request it.