Rudolf Steiner Quotes

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.

What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!

She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.

Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among many.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. Justice requires that we carefully weigh rights and privileges and assure that each member of a community receives his due share. Love does not weigh rights and privileges too carefully because it prompts each to bear the burden of the other.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

Love is doing something you don't want to do for someone you don't particularly like at that moment.

Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.

It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others.

The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood is the selflessness that it introduces you to, and I think that's really freeing... I think it allows you to put yourself in other people's shoes...the empathy that it slugs you with, being a mother. And I think it makes you a better storyteller.

We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness.

When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

The truest state of humanity is that you're living for other people.

An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.