“...At the end of the day, what matters is our faith in humanity...” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“…the truest feeling of happiness is the security that comes with being loved.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.” — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“We love out of compassion, passion or a sense of commitment.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped. — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“Having a deep sense of understanding is a huge burden for a mind that can’t directly influence things.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. — Peter Watts 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
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 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
It always amused me that there were people working for the good of altruism but also wanting a lot of credit for… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
“…a writer, like most artists, needs a partner who can act as the fuel to his artistic mind and soul, yet has… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
The key to genuine happiness is in our hands. To think this way is to discover the essential values of kindness, brotherly… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“We need the wisdom to accept the fact that this world abounds with issues we cannot solve; and we need to part… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Because I took an oath to help people. To protect them from The League and any corrupt government. (Devyn) Yeah, and I… — Sherrilyn Kenyon 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
“Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“7. The principle of reciprocal altruism—I’ll scratch your back if you’ll scratch mine”—is universal; people do not by nature give generously unless… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Not many musicians can get 10000 people to show up and help pay his back taxes, and when farmers are going broke… — Rich Hall Copy Share Image
One reason that a truth and reconciliation process is needed for group selection is to return to the simplicity of the original… — David Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
“The Linux world behaves in many respects like a free market or an ecology, a collection of selfish agents attempting to maximize… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone wants others to do their work they call upon their Altruism. 'Never mind your own needs,' they say, 'Think of… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
“Compassion is not something you have; it is something you share.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“A yesterday missed can never be found even in a fine tomorrow.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another. — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image