Altruism


Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (Castle Lectures in Ethics, Politics, and Economics)
Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help
What We Owe the Future
The Precipice
The Selfish Gene
Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference
Naked Empire (Sword of Truth, #8)
Animal Liberation
80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good
Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame
Faith of the Fallen (Sword of Truth, #6)
The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
The Covert Buccaneer by S. Lucia Kanter St. AmourTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeBeaver vs. Beaver, a legal comedy by Portia PorterAlienation of Affections by Portia PorterTake Charge by Norman Bacal
Endearing Lawyers
9 books — 20 voters
The Fairy Queen and the Golden Flower by Kristen LindemanA Year of Living Kindly by Donna    CameronManners Will Take You Where Brains and Money Won't by Donald G. JamesThe Hidden Words Of Bahá'u'lláh by Bahá'u'lláhHow to Practice by Dalai Lama XIV
Books about importance of kindness
17 books — 26 voters

The Fairy Queen and the Heart of the Lake by Kristen LindemanThe Fairy Queen and the Golden Flower by Kristen LindemanA Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. SteadHorton Hears a Who! by Dr. SeussEach Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
Picture Books About Kindness
130 books — 93 voters
Vägivallatu suhtlemine by Marshall B. RosenbergKuidas kasvatada lapses emotsionaalset intelligentsust, Emots... by Lawrence E. ShapiroVäike tunneteraamat by Liv LarssonUku suur süda by Helen VoogKESKENDUMINE by Daniel Goleman
Empaatia
10 books — 1 voter

David Almond
I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on stupid and shouted rubbish or tried to tell you all about themselves, you could never really tell about them either... I knew if somebody looked at me, they'd know nothing about me, either. ...more
David Almond, Skellig

J.D. Salinger
Lawyers are alright, I guess — but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if they go around saving innocent guys' lives all the time, and like that, but you don't do that kind of stuff if you're a lawyer. All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hot-shot. And besides, even if you did go around saving guys' lives and all, how would you know if you did it because you really wanted to save guys' lives, or beca ...more
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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