Others Happiness Quotes

Others Happiness Quotes by Gautama Buddha, Henry David Thoreau, Helen Keller, Dalai Lama, Chuck Palahniuk, Oscar Wilde and many others.

Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others’ bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.
Gautama Buddha
I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
Henry David Thoreau
Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.
Helen Keller
Our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others’ happiness.
Dalai Lama
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Chuck Palahniuk
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
As a young woman, I was so eager to please that I served others’ happiness and even their values before my own. It didn’t earn me love, but it did deliver me to a place where I had to choose between what I thought of myself and what other people did. I chose myself.
Kathryn Harrison
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Sigmund Freud
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
John Lennon
Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.
Henry Ward Beecher
The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert A. Heinlein
Human beings are not intrinsically selfish, which isolates us from others. We are essentially social animals who depend on others to meet our needs. We achieve happiness, prosperity and progress through social interaction. Therefore, having a kind and helpful attitude contributes to our own and others’ happiness.
Dalai Lama
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis
Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.
Alice Walker
I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.
Gautama Buddha
Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.
Immanuel Kant
Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.
Dalai Lama
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucius
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley
If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
Andy Rooney
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Seneca the Younger
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
…if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
Dalai Lama
When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.
Dalai Lama
You can’t save the world…save YOUR heart. Be a catalyst & create a life where you are powerful. Rebel. Be happy & allow others happiness.
Andy Biersack
Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.
A. A. Milne
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
Be so happy that when others look at you, they become happy too.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.” “happiness is when I see others happy. Happiness is a shared thing. I feel very diminished happiness if it is something I enjoy myself.
Desmond Tutu
Ever-new Joy is God. He is inexhaustible; as you continue your meditations during the years, He will beguile you with an infinite ingenuity. Devotees like yourself who have found the way to God never dream of exchanging Him for any other happiness; He is seductive beyond thought of competition.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Tantra says be real, be authentic to yourself. Your happiness is not bad; it is good. It is not sin! Only sadness is sin, only to be miserable is sin. To be happy is virtue because a happy person will not create unhappiness for others. Only a happy person can be a ground for others’ happiness.
Rajneesh
The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
Dalai Lama
Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Dale Carnegie
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
John Lennon