Being Altruistic Quotes

#1. Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. Being altruistic not only helps us to benefit others, but it is also the most satisfying way to live.

Matthieu Ricard

#3. Whatever they say about it, but being altruistic is not so simple for everyone. Not to look and sound like despotism, altruism must be learnt, and it's a long way, which in fact begins from our egoism, for really, a human can't love others if he doesn't love himself first.

Lara Biyuts

#4. You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading ... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.

Steven Wright

#5. There is a dramatic conflict in what is commonly called the human sciences. Should we postulate a typical human reality and describe its psychic modalities, taking into account only the imperfections, or should we not rather make a constant, solid endeavor to understand man in an everchanging light?

Frantz Fanon

#6. The glory of God is upon you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. I wasn't exactly sure that getting someone a job as a porn star was completely altruistic. But maybe I was being judgemental.

Marshall Thornton

#8. California is full of homesick people.

Judy Van Der Veer

#9. I ain't gonna try to teach 'em nothin'. I'm gonna try to learn.

John Steinbeck

#10. I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers.
One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.

Nora Roberts

#11. Being part of his entourage was like the sun coming through a plate-glass window: golden, something to lift your face toward.

Jodi Picoult

#12. Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor ... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him.

John Ritter

#13. When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I'm building infrastructure the hard way. I'm using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space.

Jeff Bezos

#14. The event of falling in love ... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being.

C.S. Lewis