I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on stupid and shouted rubbish or tried to tell you all about themselves, you could never really tell about them either... I knew if somebody looked at me, they'd know nothing about me, either.
David AlmondTag: inspirational friendship love family judgement altruism
Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
Tag: capitalism altruism free-enterprise free-markets r-alan-woods greed-good
I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.
Mercedes LackeyHe 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 AshlingTag: happiness unhappiness altruism how-to-be-happy
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 ChristieTag: love selfishness generosity altruism
It takes a female to have a baby,
It takes a woman to raise a child,
It takes a mother to raise them correctly,
It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world.
Tag: woman activism children service mothers charity warriors female altruism parent
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. AlderTag: success inspiration perspective stories decisions service winning motivation life-lessons games choices helping-others altruism experiences life-missions following-christ
The practice of cultivating altruism has a beneficial effect not only from the religious point of view but also from the mundane point of view, not only for long term spiritual development but even in terms of immediate rewards.
Dalai Lama XIVTag: altruism spiritual-development
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.
Peter WattsTag: life-philosophy brutality altruism self-interest
If we persist in defining ourselves as doomed, human nature as beyond redemption, and social institutions as beyond reform, then we shall create a future that will inexorably proceed in confirming this view. Rescuers refused to see Jews as guilty or beyond hope and themselves as helpless, despite all the evidence that could be marshaled to the contrary. They made a choice that affirmed the value and meaningfulness of each life in the midst of a diabolical social order that repeatedly denied it. Can we do otherwise?
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