Eknath Easwaran Quotes

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

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.

When I see people that are my age and reaching 50, the ones that are really sparkly and full of joy are the ones that are committed to something bigger than themselves.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

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.

What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.

You have to find the intersection of doing something you're passionate about and that, at the same time, is in the service of other people. I would argue if you don't find that intersection, you're not going to be very happy.

If you serve others as fully as you can, what you do will be a source of inner joy.

My work gives me a sense of purpose that I never really had before - it gives me a lot of joy, and it would be wonderful to invite other people to get involved.

What makes you, in the deepest sense of the word, happy? That's what you should be doing, if the other part is also met - if it is something the world needs.

As you forget self in service to others, you will find that, without seeking it, your own cup of happiness will be full.

If you would be happy, render a kind service, make somebody else happy.

And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning.

Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.

What we do is a calling...we make people happy.

If what makes you happy is going out and living it up and spending all your money on wine, women, and song, the world doesn't need that. But on the other hand, if you give your life to good works - you go and work in a leper colony and it doesn't make you happy - the chances are you're not doing it very well.

The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.

Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world.

There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.

The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is to living...and the man who misses this truth misses the greatest joy and satisfaction that can come into his life -- service for others.

Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.

For our family, the entire structure of our life, our home, our business relationships - the entire purpose is for everyone to be able to create in a way that makes them happy. Fame is almost an inconsequential by-product of what we're really trying to accomplish. We are trying to put great things into the world, we're trying to have fun, and we're trying to become the greatest versions of ourselves in the process of doing things we love.