Alfred Adler Quotes

I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

Without love, we are not free from our own self interest.

Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to what makes us human. This is why, from the day Facebook Platform launched in 2007, Causes has been honored to be one of the most popular applications, with over 140 million users.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.

I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

As long as you keep yourself in love with people, you can transcend time.

There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.

If we don't spend our time on this earth looking out for one another, what are we really doing with our lives?

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

People love me or hate me and all I think about is the people that I know and suffer with different causes and carry on my charity work and that's what keeps me alive really.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

The doctrine of Christ enjoins men, all brothers in His eyes, to love one another.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.