Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.

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

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

I've still got to do something to help, however tiny it is. I always think of the old Hebrew saying, which is translated roughly into, 'He who saves one life saves the world,' because it's pretty ghastly to think of all the people we're not saving.

You try and help something, and later on it bites you, so it's a hard decision, but as a country, as a nation, people need our help.

The best way of fulfilling your own interest is to take care of others.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

Have you known what it is to give your meal to another and to go without yourself? It gives a happiness that no dinner eaten by yourself can give. Have you known what it is to give your coat to another and do without it yourself? It gives a joy that the satisfaction of your own wants cannot give you.

Our rule is the works of mercy... It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.

When we serve others, we serve ourselves. Do not think, I will help others - think rather, I will help my own, my world, because I cannot otherwise be happy.

Feel the needs of others more than your own.

We love most those who we serve most.

Helping others is the way we help ourselves.

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.

When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.

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

The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.

The end of all education should surely be service to others

The end of all knowledge should be service to others.

In order to be the best version of yourself, you have to dedicate time, effort, and support to other people who need it.

My parents came from little, so they made a choice to give a lot: buying turkeys for homeless shelters at Thanksgiving, delivering meals to people in hospices, giving spare change to those asking for it.

I think it's important, as a human being, to help others.