Peter Kropotkin Quotes

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.

I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .

The fullness of life comes from an identity built on giving and on joy.

I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity

Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.

It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

I think love and beauty are what life is all about.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.

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

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

The great happiness in life is not to donate but to serve.

Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: "Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color.

The noblest art is that of making others happy.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.