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Isn't reality based on the prevailing culture, the trend that people want to identify with? — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

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

Some people live their memorable years fighting against their basic instincts only to succumb in the end to what was actually good for them. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Altruist: a person who likes to help people more than they like to be helped. — Marty Rubin

You're not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through you like cellophane. — Rebecca McNutt

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. — E. O. Wilson

We love out of compassion, passion or a sense of commitment. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings. — Jasper Fforde

With true love, you can move mountains, make unusual sacrifices, live a life of deprivations and still be happy. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism. — John Buchanan Robinson

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

If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature. — Richard Dawkins

Altruism is the best source of happiness. There is no doubt about that. — Dalai Lama

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. — Leonard Bernstein

Compassion, along with love, is the face of altruism. — Dalai Lama

Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism. — Ellen Key

Altruism is a brief phase through which some adolescents must pass. It is rather like acne. Happily, as with acne, only a few are permanently scarred. — Gore Vidal

Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile. — Marcel Proust

Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go to Paradise. — Isabella Rossellini

Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary. — David Sloan Wilson

Time alone can nourish or erode our emotions. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...the act of kindness is an unselfish act, it is medicine for your soul... — Travis Culliton

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men ... — Baruch Spinoza

Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given. — Marian Wright Edelman

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task. — Sophocles

We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

The greatest sacrifice a man can make is the image of his soul. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table. — Shannon L. Alder

Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods

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. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Life is a mighty joke that is not meant to be funny. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The scrupulous survivors in life are the best counterweight to unscrupulous survivors. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

True heroes don't fall. They only encounter temporary setbacks as they forge ahead towards progress. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after. — Rebecca Solnit

Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy. — Erol Ozan

Love and hate when stretched to their extremes blind reasoning. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word. — John Lancaster Spalding

Having a deep sense of understanding is a huge burden for a mind that can't directly influence things. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others. — Dalai Lama

Kindness is love in action, not feeling emotions or thoughts of empathy only. Kindness is doing! — Shannon L. Alder

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? — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

At what point is normal natural? — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. — Ayn Rand

It is not something we often find out; but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

It was one thing to be fooled, and another thing to be taken for a fool all the time. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Don't mistake any of this for altruism ... Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better. — Larry Ellison

Poverty of young men alone behind the
stairways, who practice
alchemy inside bottle caps, who know
the altruism of a last syringe. — Jim Carroll

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. — Robert A. Heinlein

Altruism is the surest and most effective way to bring about genuine life satisfaction. — Dalai Lama XIV

In today's world, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of that disparity. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one. — H.L. Mencken

Some honest people think it is better to know the ways of the devil without being evil. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The most popular form of altruism is giving to others the advice you cannot use yourself. — Evan Esar

Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

altruism by any other name is still altruism, fueled by many different motivations. — Andrew E. Kaufman

Most people have this tendency to make judgments on others based on preconceptions, especially when they are dealing with them for the first time. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The best thing about having money is that you can use it to help someone else. — Marty Rubin

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better. — Henry Spencer

You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicine
hope. — Shannon L. Alder

Jill, of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time. — Robert A. Heinlein

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. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination. — Christina Stead

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not. — Mark Twain

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society. — Ayn Rand

There are very dark times when even basic human altruism must be an intentional act of rebellion.

--I Am Fire and Air — William Anthony

Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront. — Edward Abbey

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. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The believer feels a compulsion to act far beyond basic altruism, and that defies explanation. — Devorah Kalani

Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict. — Peter Breggin

Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on. — Ayn Rand

The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head. — Henry Mosquera

To live for others was to live fully; to live only for yourself, a cold kind of death. — Joe Hill

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

The dignity we create in the time allotted to us becomes a continuum with the dignity we achieve by the altruism of accepting the necessity of death. — Sherwin B. Nuland

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism. — Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

There is a growing movement called effective altruism. It's important because it combines both the heart and the head. — Peter Singer

Her four pupils bored into his, her white face perfectly immobile. "Altruism? What's happening to you?" "I don't know," he said. — William Gibson

The altruism of foresters can serve as a motto for humanity in general: "We reap what we have not sown. We sow what we do not reap." — Leo Errera

I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings. — Frank Grillo

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. — Peter Watts

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others. — Brian Tracy

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798) — Thomas Jefferson

We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life. — Deepak Chopra

Idealistic as it may sound, altruism should be the driving force in business, not just competition and a desire for wealth. — Dalai Lama XIV

A man who does not honor the company of his true friends will never see the light of true love. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

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. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism. — Nicholson Baker

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism. — Samantha Power

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped. — David Rakoff

Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires. — Mason Cooley

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love. — Jane Goodall

They are surprised that he did it, though, which shows you that the male mind expects very little in the way of altruism from it's fellows. — Stephen King

Altruism eventuates in all realities, else self-destruction consumes it. — Guy Lozier

... 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. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

To identify Woman with Altruism is to guarantee man absolute rights to her devotion; it is to impose on women a categorical must-be. — Simone De Beauvoir

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

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. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando