Top 100 Quotes About The Happiness Of Others
#1. The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.
Ayad Akhtar
#2. Happiness is your inherent nature. In the hustle and bustle of life, you have forgotten a part of yourself, and looking for it outside. Fill this void with happiness that is sustainable, not transitory; that illuminates your life and that of others, that is life giving and so natural.
Sanchita Pandey
#3. What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#4. "I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."
Samuel Johnson
#5. The only reasonable goal in life is maximizing your total lifetime experience of something called happiness. That might sound selfish, but it's not. Only a sociopath or a hermit can find happiness through extreme selfishness. A normal person needs to treat others well in order to enjoy life.
Scott Adams
#6. Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others
Matthieu Ricard
#7. A child's smile reminds us that the greatest privilege in life is to know, help & enjoy the company of others
Phil Harding
#8. Humanity has one strength that no one has: that is we may feel the feelings, pain, jealousy, failure, love, happiness of others and identify with them, and even see the world through their own eyes.
Orhan Pamuk
#9. Almost everyone nowadays is on the wrong track in their pursuit of
happiness. They think a great deal about having and receiving, about
outward show and success and being served by others. That is what most
people call fulfillment.
True fulfillment, though, lies in giving and serving.
Paulo Coelho
#10. Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious to the rights of others.
Thomas Paine
#11. The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.
Lew Wallace
#12. Too much stress cannot be laid ... upon the admonition that we seek so far as possible to live in the lives of other people. By sharing in the misfortunes of others, and rejoicing in their happiness, you add to your own emotional serenity and stability.
Ralph Alfred Habas
#13. Whoever influences the child's life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child's future happiness and his ability to cope with life and relate to others will depend on it.
Bruno Bettelheim
#14. We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.
Jeremy Bentham
#16. 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.
Dan Pearce
#17. Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
David Sarnoff
#19. Associated with gratitude is virtue. I think they are related because he who is disposed to shun virtue lacks appreciation of life, its purposes, and the happiness and well-being of others.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#20. To wish happiness for others, even for those who want to do us harm, is the source of consummate happiness.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
#21. No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
Juvenal
#22. Loosen the bonds of discursive thought. Extend the circle of caring. Cease armoring against suffering. Wish for others the same happiness you wish for yourself. Be a tender-minded steward of creation.
Marc Ian Barasch
#23. Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind ... Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.
Leo Tolstoy
#24. He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.
Charles Caleb Colton
#25. It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities; there can only be submissive wearing of the cords that others have tied round our hands.
Auberon Herbert
#26. Kindness isn't sacrifice so much as it is being considerate for the feelings of others, sharing happiness, the unselfish thought, the spontaneous and friendly act, forgetfulness of our own present interests.
Carl Holmes
#27. I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.
Jean Plaidy
#28. There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.
Matthieu Ricard
#29. The utilitarian morality does recognise in human beings the power of sacrificing their own greatest good for the good of others. It only refuses to admit that the sacrifice is itself a good. A sacrifice which does not increase, or tend to increase, the sum total of happiness, it considers as wasted.
John Stuart Mill
#30. God wants us to be happy, because when we are, we are closer to Him. We can hear His direction better in the form of intuition and we can help others as well. So, do what makes you happy.
Sharon Critchfield
#31. If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.
George Lucas
#32. All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction
Dalai Lama XIV
#33. Caring about the happiness of others, we find our own.
Plato
#34. Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#35. Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
Thomas More
#36. Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
James F. Cooper
#37. I do not think about converting others to Buddhism or merely furthering the Buddhist cause. Instead, I try to think of how I as a Buddhist can contribute to the happiness of all living beings.
Dalai Lama XIV
#38. Maybe he'd been mistaken, trying so hard to make his wife and young children happy. Maybe it's always a mistake, trying to assure the happiness of others.
Joyce Carol Oates
#39. All those who are unhappy in the world are so as a result of their desire for their own happiness. All those who are happy in the world are so as a result of their desire for the happiness of others.
Shantideva
#40. The secret of happiness is living in accordance with how one thinks. Be yourself and don't try to impose your criteria on the rest. I don't expect others to live like me. I want to respect people's freedom but I defend my freedom.
Jose Mujica
#41. Discover your uniqueness and learn to exploit it in the service of others, and you are guaranteed success, happiness, and prosperity.
Larry Winget
#42. It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it ... The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.
Michel De Montaigne
#43. Dancing is my gift and my life ... God gave me this gift to bring delight to others. I am haunted by the need to dance. It is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual. It is happiness.
Anna Pavlova
#44. If men would learn to pursue their own happiness rather than the misery of others, we can achieve a better life for everyone. Adopting this would help turn our Earth into a paradise.
Bertrand Russell
#45. Life becomes invaluable when we spend it in the service of others.
Debasish Mridha
#46. Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.
Thomas S. Monson
#47. When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves.
Steve Maraboli
#48. The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
#49. Yes, keep on degrading yourself, soul. But soon your chance at dignity will be gone. Everyone gets one life. Yours is almost used up, and instead of treating yourself with respect, you have entrusted your own happiness to the souls of others.
Marcus Aurelius
#50. The value of your life will not be judge by the value of your wealth or splendor, but by the value you added to others life.
Debasish Mridha
#51. We steal the happiness of others in order to be happy ourselves, and when it is stolen from us we voyage desperately to steal it back.
Daniel Handler
#52. A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are meaningless. What you call individual rights are merely the cultural fantasy of a failed civilization.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#53. Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.
Washington Irving
#54. Feeling inspired, being challenged. Learning something new, something meaningful. Knowing change is possible and I can make that happen. Understanding and loving others, feeling truly connected and authentic. Good food, great sex, and belly laughs. All the basic foundations of happiness, really!
Jaime Murray
#55. The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!
Israelmore Ayivor
#56. You know, when you're unhappy you don't have the strength left to take care of others. But it doesn't mean you don't love them.
Francesca Marciano
#57. If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too
Eckhart Tolle
#58. Looking outside of yourself for love and acceptance, leaves your happiness in the hands of others.
Debra Beck
#59. One of the greatest gifts in this world is the ability to make others smile. - The Unauthorized Autobiography of Jonathan Fisher
J.E.B. Spredemann
#60. It's taken years, but part of my own personal growth has involved deciding that I can learn something from even the most annoying person.
Auliq Ice
#61. Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.
David O. McKay
#62. Because He came to earth, we have a perfect example to follow. As we strive to become more like Him, we will have joy and happiness in our lives and peace each day of the year. It is His example which, if followed, stirs within us more kindness and love, more respect and concern for others.
Thomas S. Monson
#63. When we feel happy and peaceful, our happiness and peace radiates around us, and others can enjoy it as well. This is called 'the enjoyment of others of our body of bliss'.
Gautama Buddha
#64. In the joy of others lies our own,
In the progress of others rests our own,
In the good of others abides our own,
Know this to be the key to peace and happiness
Pramukh Swami Maharaj
#65. Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Ray Lyman Wilbur
#66. Perfect the Will, the Mind, Feeling, their corporeal organs and their material tools; be useful to yourselves, to your own ones, and to others; and Happiness, insofar as it exists on this earth, will come of itself
Boleslaw Prus
#67. By declaring complete responsibility for being in your cocoon, and total responsibility for leaving. We become trapped when we avoid taking responsibility for the conditions in our lives. We're trapped further by blaming others for lack of fulfillment, success, and happiness.
Doreen Virtue
#68. The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.
Alessandra Torre
#69. Enlightenment, the great mysterious state of mind, is contentment, or freedom from suffering. How then do we measure happiness? We measure it in smiles, in the openness of our hearts, in generosity, in gratitude and compassion towards others, and in the steadiness of our contentment.
Andrew Furst
#70. A successful life is an authentic life. Happiness and creativity rest on a foundation of transparency to yourself and others. Knowing your own heart and speaking clearly to others keep you on the path.
Gay Hendricks
#71. To possess a rich life of wholeness that brings happiness into the soul; is to show loving and caring characteristic traits toward others.
Ellen J. Barrier
#72. May all the ill deeds, obstructions, and sufferings of beings Be transferred to me, without exception, at this moment, And my happiness and merit be sent to others. May all creatures be imbued with happiness! Just
Dalai Lama XIV
#73. When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn't a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people and situations that matter. The others, they fall away.
Kamal Ravikant
#74. Therefore the activity of God, which surpasses all others in blessedness, must be contemplative; and of human activities, therefore, that which is most akin to this must be most of the nature of happiness
Aristotle.
#75. Humanity's greatest achievement will come when the happiness of some will no longer be the sadness of others.
Mario Stinger
#76. The mind is a mass of contradictions and conflicts. We lie to make others trust us. We hide our true selves in the pursuit of intimacy. We chase happiness in ways that drive happiness away. When we're wrong we fight the hardest to prove we're right. Caught
John Verdon
#77. True liberty in individuals consists in the enjoying of every right that will contribute to one's peace and happiness, so long as the exercise of such a privilege does not interfere with the same privilege in others.
David O. McKay
#78. Study then, but study first that which will most help you to help others. Work patiently at your studies, not that men may think you wise, not even that you may have the happiness of being wise, but because only the wise man can be wisely helpful.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#79. You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#80. Keep the commandments of God. If you have sinned, the sooner you begin to make your way back, the sooner you will find the sweet peace and joy that come with the miracle of forgiveness. Happiness comes from living the way the Lord wants you to live and from service to God and others.
Thomas S. Monson
#81. Cicero said that gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. If that's true, then my happiness does not cause me to be grateful for what I have. My gratitude for what I have causes me to be happy. Gratitude births the virtue of happiness.
Jennifer Dukes Lee
#83. you create your own happiness by the choices you make. If you rely completely on others, you'll never have it, at least not in the true sense of happiness.
Florence Osmund
#84. Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.
Sharon Gannon
#85. It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me.
Auliq Ice
#86. For an immortal life, don't look for power, but be the source of power and inspiration for others.
Debasish Mridha
#87. When we spend money on others, for example, we feel more content than when we spend money on ourselves. This is a kind of well-being rooted in meaning, connection, and equanimity - called eudaimonia by the ancient Greeks and in modern times perhaps called "inner" or "true" happiness.
Daniel J. Siegel
#88. Peace. Profound happiness, unlike fleeting pleasures, is spiritual by nature. It depends on the happiness of others, and it is based on love and tenderness. We
Dalai Lama XIV
#89. I like to move towards a place where my greatest experience is promoting happiness for others. I know that that creates a cycle of the same great experience.
Russell Simmons
#90. When I take a break, even just a brief one, the creative energy flows in. Only then do I have anything of value to share with others. Once I recognized this, I stopped feeling guilty about taking time for myself.
Holly Mosier
#91. Blame doesn't empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don't want to be because you don't want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your own life's happiness.
Shannon L. Alder
#92. The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person's suffering and bring that person joy.
Nhat Hanh
#93. There's One Person above all others who desires an extraordinary life for you. He is a Father who delights, like any good father, in the achievements and happiness of His children. His name is God! And nothing will please Him more than seeing you reach your highest potential.
John Bevere
#94. For what pleasure can compare the pleasure of bringing joy and hope to other hearts. The more we make others happy the greater will be our own happiness and the deeper our sense of having served humanity.
Shoghi Effendi
#95. The best use anyone can make of any day is to enjoy it - and then spread that joy to others.
John Kremer
#96. As man is so constituted that it is utterly impossible for him to attain happiness save by seeking the happiness of others, so does it seem to be of the nature of things that individuals and classes can obtain their own just rights only by struggling for the rights of others.
Henry George
#97. Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#98. When your happiness comes primarily from the happiness of others, you know you have moved from a 'me' experience to a 'we' experience. And the whole problem-solving and opportunity-seizing process changes.
Stephen Covey
#99. If we adopt a self-centered approach to life, by which we attempt to use others for our own self interest, we might be able to gain temporary benefits, but in the long run we will not succeed in achieving even our personal happiness, and hope for the next life is out of the question.
Dalai Lama
#100. As you lose yourself in the service of others, you discover your own life and your own happiness.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
