Seneca the Younger Quotes

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!

When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.

It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good

We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.

When you do the right thing, but not to any particular person, we instinctively feel that we have earned some sort of pay back. Since no-one will do that for us, we opt for self-service reciprocation.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.

To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself

Do good, feel good; feel good, do good.

The simplest way to be happy is to do good.

When one begins to purposefully perform acts of kindness, the spirit changes and soon doing good deeds becomes a focal point for our life; doing good begins to be the same as feeling good. The periods of emptiness when we search for the "meaning of it all" begin to fill with acts of kindness.

Doing great things for others is an awesome gift to give yourself.

A good deed is the best prayer.

The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another.

The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.

The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.

There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our assistance; and, even should we be deceived, still the good to ourselves resulting from a kind act is worth more than the trifle by which we purchase it.

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.

Do good: we will meet one another there.

It's always nice to look in the mirror at the end of the day and see that you helped somebody's life... even if only a little bit.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.