Louis C. K. Quotes

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

Love looks around to see who is in need

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

That's what helps me keep playing: the idea of giving something to others. Because personally, I've had my fill.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.

I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

I feel I have this joy in my heart. I just want to make people feel.

If we talk about 'Groundhog Day' as a humanistic text - we only have one life, and there's no punishment or reward afterwards - then the wisdom is, just be kind because that will make you happy and the people around you happy.

However little of anything you have, you can always find someone who has less. Find that someone, and give to them from the abundance that is yours.

Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

I'm trying to teach people not to be selfish. That's the thing. If you have a good thing share it. Of course we're not in a sexual relationship.

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.

We have so much love to give, and the more that we give, the more we receive.

You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.

I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.

They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one packet, maybe I share that packet with somebody who has not got even one cigarette, and that's the beginning of love, to give until it hurts.

Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth.

There's not a day I live that doesn't start with me getting up and first saying, "What can I do for somebody else?" Whether that means sending something to one of my children or picking up the phone and calling a stranger who is in the hospital, I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.