Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others.

In the end, what really matters? Only kindness. Only making somebody a little happier for your presence.

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

True happiness comes only by making others happy—the practical application of the Savior's doctrine of losing one's life to gain it. In short, the Christmas spirit is the Christ spirit, that makes our hearts glow in brotherly love and friendship and prompts us to kind deeds of service.

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.

So deep and meaningful is the joy and the enthusiasm that is born in one's mind and heart by human love and helpfulness that it has the power to motivate for a lifetime. . . . You don't have to be a doctor to say or do that which puts light in a human eye or joy on a human face. Simply practice Jesus' commandment that we love one another. Go out and do something for somebody. These are the things that make happy people. Here is the one never-failing source of the joy and enthusiasm we are talking about.

Love and compassion benefit both ourselves and others. Through kindness to others, your heart and mind will be peaceful and open.

Genuine happiness comes from focusing on the happiness of others.

If we stop thinking of ourselves and only of helping others, you will start to see a dramatic improvement in the suffering we are all going through.

Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in his suffering as he does for himself in his own.

We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

Be kind. It feels good.

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

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.

If I can make someone's day brighter, happier, better, that makes me happier.

Man, it feels great to do anything that might brighten someone else's day.

I have love in my heart, and I'm kind to people every single day of my life.

I just want to make people happy and make a difference in people's lives.

I really just want to spread my love and happiness toward other people.

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.

Lavish love on every living being you meet. See how different you feel at the end of the day.

The simplest way to be happy is to do good.

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others