Dinah Maria Mulock Quotes

Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.

Make yourself as happy as possible, and try to make those happy whose lives come in touch with yours. But to attempt to right the wrongs and cease the sufferings of the world in general is a waste of effort.

Stop looking to everyone else to make you happy and start finding ways that you can make other people happy.

Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.

If you want to feel more comfortable and happy, work on making the people around you more comfortable and happy.

Everyone's goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.

Ever since I was young, I have wanted to help others live happy, healthy, fulfilling lives.

Not only is your own happiness and welfare related to others, but the more you help them, the happier you will be.

Sometimes when I'm not feeling so happy, I do something to make someone else happy then I find I'm suddenly feeling happy again.

I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do.

Be kind. It feels good.

Be happy in what you do. Be respectful of yourself. Do good works for others, and the goodness will come back to you and make you a better person. I think that's what happiness is all about.

Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.

Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another." Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.

It is not a sin to be happy, it is not a virtue to be miserable.

I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the cost of others' happiness. Be true to your friends. Remembering to find some wonder and hope in the world. Basically it boils down to: treat people like you'd like them to treat you, leave the world a little better than it was when you got here, respect others and stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves.

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

All that you really want in life is to change how you feel.

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.

I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that.

Happiness is the ultimate goal...The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.