Altruism Quote by Douglas Horton Download Open image “The art of giving is perfected through anonymity.” — Douglas Horton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Altruism Anonymity Art Cynicism Generosity Giving
We must overcome our cultural barriers that giving should be a private and silent activity. — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I think giving is a blind act that should come from a part of me that sees no discrimination (that's why I called it… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I do not think that I was brought up in a unique society with unique features about giving. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love. — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride. — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
Man worships because God lays His hand to the dust of our experience, and man miraculously becomes a living soul - and knows it… — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time. — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve. — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
“It takes a female to have a baby, It takes a woman to raise a child, It takes a mother to raise them correctly,… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“...True classical dropouts in society are those who avoid difficult challenges and cling to the first opportunity that comes their way. They never test… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Take a stand that reflects the widest horizons of your soul if you don’t want to be a slave to external powers.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it runs exactly… — Stephanie Mills 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
“…the purpose of life is to nurture joy, which involves those aspects of humanity that enrich the soul.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Effective altruism is the form of altruism in which we bring our rational capacities to bear in order to do the most good that… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Societies and people that come close to being happy are those that do well in narrowing the disparity between their desires and their needs,… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
