“Expose human ties for what they really are and you are most likely to find the worst forms of betrayal staring back… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“... People who are the spices of this world are the natural souls with instincts and impulses that have not been pruned… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“When somebody you love dies, a phase of life’s innocence dies with that person, and a part of you dies as well.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“…the purpose of life is to nurture joy, which involves those aspects of humanity that enrich the soul.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Altruism, a jargon word for what used to be called love, is worse than weakness, it is sin, a violation of nature.… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict. — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is the most effective way of dealing with arguments; altruism and forgiveness bring humanity together so that no conflict, however serious,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“...We are truly human when we live for a purpose far above ourselves; but most people prefer to identify with an entity… — Janvier Chando Copy Share Image
What [Margaret Thatcher] made a play for was the acquisitive: our greedy nature. She set aside other things like an identification with… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“In a pocket of his knapsack he'd found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Some people automatically associate morality and altruism with a religious vision of the world. But I believe it is a mistake to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Do not expect too much of others. ... . This is to expect of another a degree of altruism which is contrary… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The three values which men held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism - as a cultural… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If we persist in defining ourselves as doomed, human nature as beyond redemption, and social institutions as beyond reform, then we shall… — Samuel P. Oliner Copy Share Image
“...The world gets blessed every now and then with unique souls who though burdened by their invisible crosses, still have the extraordinary… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Religion and anger has gone together a lot, historically. My father, being very religious and angry, was trying to reconcile the ideas… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Barring love and war, few enterprises are undertaken with such abandon, or by such diverse individuals, or with so paradoxical a mixture… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Altruism is written in everlasting and resplendent character on the Cross of Christ, and it was at Calvary that the centre of… — Jon Weber Copy Share Image
Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food. — Dean McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Some people live their memorable years fighting against their basic instincts only to succumb in the end to what was actually good… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Altruism is a brief phase through which some adolescents must pass. It is rather like acne. Happily, as with acne, only a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.” — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Infinite altruism is the basis of peace and happiness. If you want altruism, you must control hate and you must practice patience.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an… — African Spir Copy Share Image
“ALTRUISM WAS, from the very start, a problem for the Darwinian theory of evolution, if not something worse than a problem. As… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
When you engage in compassion, and you hear a distressing sound, like someone calling for help, there is an activation in an… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
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