empathetic joy Quotes

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

No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.

Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.

If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!

If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.

Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.

There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.

If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down

The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him.

Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

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

The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Gratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our "sympathetic joy," our happiness at another's happiness. Just as in the cultivation of compassion, we may feel the pain of others, so we may begin to feel their joy as well. And it doesn't stop there.

He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.

If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too.

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.