Top 100 Love Altruism Quotes
#1. All religion teaches the virtues of love, altruism and patience, while showing us how to discipline and transform ourselves to achieve inner peace and a kind heart. Therefore, they are worthy of our respect.
Dalai Lama
#2. Psychology has falsified love as surrender and altruism, while it is an appropriation or a bestowal following from a super-abundance of personality. Only the most complete persons can love. The depersonalized and objective are the worst lovers.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#3. Isn't reality based on the prevailing culture, the trend that people want to identify with?
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#4. There are people who bring joy to our lives, but who fail to make us happy. They are the people for the moment. Never rely on their love because it is not sustainable. Their love is alike a comet that illuminates the sky, but then fades away because it lacks the sustainable energy of the sun.
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#5. The narrow-minded find it convenient to create stereotypes, and then try to fit everybody, everything and every situation into those stereotypes.
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#6. We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.
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#7. Don't sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there's nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
Karl Lagerfeld
#8. Most people have this tendency to make judgments on others based on preconceptions, especially when they are dealing with them for the first time.
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#9. Male writers who never find the stabilizing force of an understanding woman in their lives usually end up as the jaded figures of their days, the types who give much artistic expression to the world, but who are lonely in their overcrowded worlds of love.
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#11. You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.
Agatha Christie
#12. What is the purpose of wealth if it cannot serve an ideal that enhances humanity and betters the lives of the people, even if that means those we have never met before in our lives?
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#13. A man who does not honor the company of his true friends will never see the light of true love.
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#14. The scrupulous survivors in life are the best counterweight to unscrupulous survivors.
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#15. There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.
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#16. He himself didn't see it as exceptionally altruistic, because he had understood one can't be truly happy in isolation or, worse, among unhappy people. The best protection against danger, unhappiness and the sordidness of human existence is to be surrounded by people who love you.
Andrew Ashling
#17. Most of the truly kind people of this world show some measure of discomfort when offered kindness. Their gratitude stems not only from their understanding of the depth of the force of kindness, but also from their conviction that kindness should not be taken for granted.
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#18. Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations more than others.
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#19. A man can't talk of true happiness if he has never known true love - the trusting, selfless and unconditional love that I took for granted.
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#20. ...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process,
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#21. When somebody you love dies, a phase of life's innocence dies with that person, and a part of you dies as well.
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#23. The ultimate altruism is nothing but the sacrifice of one's self for the benefit of others. Love yourself but never forget to be altruistic to others in need.
Debasish Mridha
#24. Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.
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#25. It is not something we often find out; but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary.
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#26. True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.
Dalai Lama
#27. Sometimes, our pride compels us to engage in costly wars when a true commitment to a compromising peace would have been the best course to pursue.
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#28. Fear is a basic human instinct and an indicator of the gravity of a situation. It becomes an asset if it is effectively controlled. It becomes a weakness for a man if he lets it prevail over him.
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#29. He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.
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#30. We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth.
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#31. Expose human ties for what they really are and you are most likely to find the worst forms of betrayal staring back at you.
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#32. At its strongest and wildest and most authentic, love is a demon. It is a religion, a high-risk adventure, an act of heroism. Love is ecstasy and injury, transcendence and danger, altruism and excess. In many ways, it is a divine madness.
Cristina Nehring
#33. We still need to give our best to life even if we do not understand the purpose of our existence on earth.
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#34. 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
#35. In dealing with others, man is inherently a slave to his preconceptions, to the stereotypes he became familiar with that made life easier for him to comprehend.
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#36. Kindness is love in action, not feeling emotions or thoughts of empathy only. Kindness is doing!
Shannon L. Alder
#38. Some honest people think it is better to know the ways of the devil without being evil.
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#39. Loving others is the greatest gift we can give ourselves. Altruism that rewards one's self.
Allan Lokos
#40. What is the purpose of achieving your dream if the people you had dreamed your achievements for are no longer there to reap the benefits?
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#41. In today's world, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of that disparity.
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#42. Judgments based on preconceptions make life simple for us to deal with since that means we safely shield ourselves behind barriers of preconception that helped us feel safe in whatever views or assumptions we are having.
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#43. So, you see; you have the soul of a missionary, the heart of a revolutionary and the mind of a reformer. But what are you to yourself and the family and friends who will always be there for you?
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#44. ... People who are the spices of this world are the natural souls with instincts and impulses that have not been pruned by evolution and civilization.
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#45. Altruism, a jargon word for what used to be called love, is worse than weakness, it is sin, a violation of nature. Be seperate. Do not be a social animal.
Lewis Thomas
#46. It was one thing to be fooled, and another thing to be taken for a fool all the time.
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#47. Some people live their memorable years fighting against their basic instincts only to succumb in the end to what was actually good for them.
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#49. ...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man's world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?
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#50. In your selflessness pursuit of things higher than yourself, you appear selfish or inconsiderate to those who truly love you and who have cared deeply about you from the first day you came into their lives.
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#51. Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer.
Dalai Lama
#52. True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success,
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#53. we can learn a lot from a tree; she
gives so much without expecting
anything in return. oxygen, shade,
fruit, resources. she is proud of her
roots and tough to tear down.
try to be more like a tree.
give without expectations, be
proud, be strong.
JaTawny Muckelvene Chatmon
#54. I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.
Gloria Steinem
#55. I am deeply in love with the world and its contents. My heartaches when I see any suffering so kindness and altruism is my ultimate way of life.
Debasish Mridha
#56. ...only the dreamers of a dream are capable of translating their dreams into worthy practical endeavors that are devoid of haunting errors. After all, they are the ones who carefully observed the link between their dreams and reality; they are the ones who worked consciously to blend them into one.
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#57. We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
Jane Goodall
#58. Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed.
Gina Maranto
#59. Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.
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#60. Huh! Mankind always comes up with ideas to make up for the follies of the status quo. But what happens if those ideas are inflexible and fail to respond to the changing times. They end up betraying the people who believed in them.
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#61. Hold onto your creativity, that idealism that is rooted in some degree of innocence and a firm belief in something finer than the things we already have.
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#62. Compassion, along with love, is the face of altruism.
Dalai Lama
#63. Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole.
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#64. Most people live lives that are full of mysteries, lives whose ultimate purpose we may never really understand. But for the sake of serenity, we must believe in life's nobleness.
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#65. In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.
Sigmund Freud
#66. ...A canonical leader is someone whose exemplary rule might have appeared to be for the alleviation of the pains and miseries of a particular group, but which in reality is for the advancement of humanism...
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#67. We need the wisdom to accept the fact that this world abounds with issues we cannot solve; and we need to part ways with those people, ideas and things that are a vexation to the soul.
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#68. A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it.
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#69. I think preconceived ideas or prejudgments are meant to give us an edge whenever we are dealing with others we don't know or haven't made the effort to understand.
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#70. It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself,
than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all
connected with you.
Charlotte Bronte
#71. Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
Brian Tracy
#72. 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,
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#73. Kindness is a source of relief to the soul of the giver, creating a sense of fortitude that is incomprehensible to those who do not know what kindness is all about.
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#74. We do things in life to make others happy. We make sacrifices because that feeling - the one I once thought was altruism, but have since learned is just love - it makes us feel good. We give, but it's never selfless.
Ginger Scott
#75. With true love, you can move mountains, make unusual sacrifices, live a life of deprivations and still be happy.
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#76. The things that trip a person into love aren't the grand, sweeping traits you expect (must adore Waugh, display altruism, respect my space). The truly endearing properties are the small and apparently trivial gestures and habits that differentiate us one from another.
S.A. Jones
#78. ...A legendary leader distinguishes himself as someone who gets ahead of his people from an impasse and futile general consensus, and then finds new grounds that constitute the base from which a unique course of his people's destiny is charted...
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#79. The true leaders of our time, the legends of this world or the movers of the movers are the towering figures that are blessed with beautiful minds, receptive ears and directing voices. They are the ones we should emulate in life.
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#80. When we tend to be too hard on those we love, we erode the softness of our souls in the process, taking out the humanity within us that is the nucleus of our goodness, even if our actions are for their own sake.
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#81. Enthusiasm is the thing which makes the world go round. Without its driving power, nothing worth doing has ever been done. Love, friendship, religion, altruism, devotion to career or hobby-all these, and most of the other good things of life, are forms of enthusiasm.
Robert Haven Schauffler
#82. Singers, actors or artists who touch on sorrow are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to their sorrows.
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#83. We have power as consumers. We can exercise that power all the time by not choosing to invest time, energy or funds to support the production of mass media images that do not reflect life-enhancing values, that undermine a love ethic.
Bell Hooks
#84. Man craves joy far more than anything else in life, but there is nothing as madly intoxicating as the feeling of joy that comes from the soul.
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#85. Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity without meaning to.
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#86. Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict.
Peter Breggin
#87. At the end of the day, developing goodness comes down to a simple question: Will this emotion, thought or action, increase or decrease my capacity for goodness?
Gudjon Bergmann
#88. ...Bad leaders are known to destroy one, more or even all of the foundations of their people's way of life...
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#89. Societies and people that come close to being happy are those that do well in narrowing the disparity between their desires and their needs, especially the material things of life.
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#90. When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life
trust, love, mercy, and altruism
then we shall know that the kingdom of God is here.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#91. 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.
Deepak Chopra
#92. Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man's worst selfish instincts.
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#93. A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover's world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian's world revolves around the world.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#94. ...True classical dropouts in society are those who avoid difficult challenges and cling to the first opportunity that comes their way. They never test their talents. These latent talents will only help to produce the next cycle of dropouts...
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#95. 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 power to not hit back.
Abhijit Naskar
#96. In the world of today, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of all of those contradictions. That is how we ended up complicating our world.
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#97. Love is the most complex of all human phenomena. It exists on a spectrum from tolerance and kindness to romantic love and self-sacrifice, reaching its pinnacle in altruism, a love that needs nothing in return.
Gudjon Bergmann
#98. Friendship is that form of altruism that takes its strides faster than anything else does.
Deepak Rana
#100. The selfish and self-centered have a hard time being kind, even though you and I know that kindness is a source of relief to the soul.
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