"Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped."

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Source : "Altruism: Better Late Than Never" by Paula Gardner, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2016.

David Rakoff

#Altruism Quotes

“Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.”

Source : Shonda Rhimes (2015). “Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person”, p.86, Simon and Schuster
“That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off...and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.”
“I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration.”
“We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged, it was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.”
“It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.”
“Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.”
“I was a gypsy, living a carefree life of ponies and tennis.”
“Measuring and laying out the room in advance can save you a lot of headaches.”

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