Top 100 Quotes About The Happiness Of Others
#1. "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
#2. 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
#3. He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.
Charles Caleb Colton
#4. I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.
Jean Plaidy
#5. Caring about the happiness of others, we find our own.
Plato
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Henry Fielding
#13. Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.
Luc De Clapiers
#14. The happiness of others is never bearable for very long ...
Francoise Sagan
#15. That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
James Thomson
#17. Most people are resentful of the happiness of others and yet we seem to seek validation from others in order to allow our own happiness ... it's easy to see the problem with this system.
Steve Maraboli
#18. Genuine happiness comes from focusing on the happiness of others.
Dalai Lama
#19. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness and the happiness of others.
Israelmore Ayivor
#20. We are already in Hell. It is the earth itself that is Hell, the prison constructed for us by an intelligence superior to our own, in which I could not take a step without injuring the happiness of others, and in which my fellow creatures could not enjoy their own happiness without causing me pain.
August Strindberg
#21. 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.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#22. Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and the happiness of others.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#23. Action for Happiness encourages each of us to live more compassionately and put the happiness of others at the centre of our lives. This is the path to lasting peace and happiness
Dalai Lama
#24. With perfect and unyielding faith,
With steadfastness, respect, and courtesy,
With modesty and conscientiousness,
Work calmly for the happiness of others.
Santideva
#25. Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.
Oliver Goldsmith
#26. What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
Immanuel Kant
#27. If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.
Meher Baba
#28. When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#29. Have you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happiness of others.
Arsene Houssaye
#30. The wise person understands that his own happiness must include the happiness of others.
Dennis Weaver
#31. A man can achieve his own happiness only by pursuing the happiness of others, because it is only by forgetting about his own happiness that he can become happy.
Lao-Tzu
#32. I envy the happiness of others ... I envy the sense of belonging ... I seem always to be remaking myself.
Richard Eyre
#33. What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
Baron De Montesquieu
#34. When you see # happiness in the happiness of others, that's when you will be truly happy.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#35. I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as the Happiness of Duty; for we ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.
John Lubbock
#36. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.
Dalai Lama
#37. The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.
Ayad Akhtar
#38. 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
#39. What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#40. 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
#41. Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others
Matthieu Ricard
#42. A child's smile reminds us that the greatest privilege in life is to know, help & enjoy the company of others
Phil Harding
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.
Lew Wallace
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#54. 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
#55. To wish happiness for others, even for those who want to do us harm, is the source of consummate happiness.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
#56. No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
Juvenal
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.
George Lucas
#64. All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction
Dalai Lama XIV
#65. 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
#66. Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
Thomas More
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. Discover your uniqueness and learn to exploit it in the service of others, and you are guaranteed success, happiness, and prosperity.
Larry Winget
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. Life becomes invaluable when we spend it in the service of others.
Debasish Mridha
#75. 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
#76. When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves.
Steve Maraboli
#77. The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too
Eckhart Tolle
#86. Looking outside of yourself for love and acceptance, leaves your happiness in the hands of others.
Debra Beck
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.
David O. McKay
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Ray Lyman Wilbur
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.
Alessandra Torre
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
