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"My entire life, I've never been able to understand the concept of not being happy or excited when others were successful or had something good happen to them. It quite honestly is a concept that I cannot grasp."

"The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed."

"What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people?"

"It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself."

"Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self - esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems."

"Our highest deeds come from helping the lowest people."

"The help we give to others creates the ripple of good feeling we give to ourselves."
Explore more quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll


"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."


"I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne."


"Every man should stand under the blue and stars, under the infinite flag of nature, the peer of every other man."


"The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others."


"Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words."


"The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything..."


"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism."


"Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms."
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