Inspirational Thoughts About AltruismWe would all love to be more selfless. There are obvious benefits in helping others, from reciprocity to being aligned with our values to simply feeling good. Unfortunately, in the midst of day to day life, stress and competition can make it easy to forget how important it is to be altruistic. The following inspirational quotes can serve to remind us as to why altruism is so important.
“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.”– Charles Dickens “I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.”– Kahlil Gibran “When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity.”– Wayne Dyer “Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”– Jack Kerouac “Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.”– Brian Tracy “Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.”– Richard Dawkins Inspirational Thoughts About KindnessFrom stoicism to Buddhism to Christianity, all the world’s great religions and philosophies have emphasized the importance of kindness. These thoughts, by some of the greatest teachers of compassion and kindness in the world, can inspire us to extend that attitude to our work and personal lives. “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”– Lao Tzu “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”– Dalai Lama XIV “Kindness is a source of relief to the soul of the giver, creating a sense of fortitude that is incomprehensible to those who do not know what kindness is all about.”– Janvier Chouteu-Chando “One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.”1– Sophocles “Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”– Og Mandingo When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”-Helen Keller “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”-Mark Twain “When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”-Audre Lorde Read more: http://www.keepinspiring.me/famous-quotes/#ixzz5KfUq8QTA
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