253 quotes found
“Dont sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much theres nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.”
“Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.”
“It's in the nature of the humans and the entire animal kingdom to return blow for blow, cheating for cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might. But what makes us true humans is the powe...”
“Because when everything is said and done... the world runs on kindness. It simply has to, or we'd never be a able to bear ourselves. It might not seem so to you now, but it will when you're older."...”
“I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.”
“At the end of the day, what matters is our faith in humanity...”
“The ultimate altruism is nothing but the sacrifice of ones self for the benefit of others. Love yourself but never forget to be altruistic to others in need.”
“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize youre already in heaven now.”
“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs...”
“We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say.”
“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.”
“In many cases, it was the womans stomachnot her heartthat fell for her man.”
“In some cases, it is the womans stomachnot her heartthat has left her man for another.”
“The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...”
“The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure ...”
“We love out of compassion, passion or a sense of commitment.”
“Feelings, rationale and values are the top qualities that make a person exceedingly human.”
“The basis of love that most people share is the intimacy they developed with their partners, the intensity of their attraction, or the similarity of their thought patterns,”
“I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on st...”
“Friendship, like other kinds of altruism, is vulnerable to cheaters, and we have a special name for them: fair-weather friends. These sham friends reap the benefits of associating with a valuable p...”
