Honore de Balzac Quotes

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.

Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

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.

I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and that is how I think we have to work.

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

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.

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

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

Mercy requires that we learn to love others, to value their welfare more than our own!

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

This is loving your neighbour as ourselves; if he needs help, help him; and if he wants salvation and it is necessary to spill his blood on the earth in order that he may be saved, spill it.

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

Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.

Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.

I think as a woman it's in our nature to nurture someone else. Sometimes at the expense of ourselves.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

I am a very approachable and personable person, and I always put myself last. Whether it's family or friends, I always think about them first.