Dennis Weaver Quotes

If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth.

If a person thinks he can be happy without making those around him happy, he's crazy.

We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness.

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

The idea of service leads to community.

That's what my life has come down to - how can I have fun for me, be with my friends and my family, and how can I help other people.

If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.

I want to be able to serve people. For that it's important that I'm with them, among them and working for them.

Making other people happy is what brings me happiness. I have a blessed life, and I have always shared my life's gifts with others. I will continue to use my voice and my life as a catalyst for encouraging people to help make a difference in the lives of others.

I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of everybody else. Then I am arriving at that circle where one works on oneself as a gift to other people so that one doesn't create more suffering. I help people as a work on myself and I work on myself to help people.

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.

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

Generosity makes us happiest. We'll be happier people when we share, not when we impose, but when we learn from one another. Because when I'm connected to everyone I disappear... in being excellent you lose yourself. And when you're connected to everyone, that's the best thing that can happen.

The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.

Not only is your own happiness and welfare related to others, but the more you help them, the happier you will be.

I know for a fact that I am not as fulfilled, happy or passionate about life if I have not spent time helping others.

Even small acts of kindness can make a profound difference to somebody else.

I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people... To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

I can't enjoy anything unless everybody is. If one guy is starving someplace, that puts a crimp in my evening.

If we are to extract any joy out of our span, we must think and plan and make things better not only for ourselves but for others, since joy for ourselves depends upon our joy in others and theirs in us.

If we worried half as much what others are doing for us and spent twice as much time helping others, we would all be exponentially happier.

Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.

It isn't what kind of house you have that matters. This is not happiness. It's what kind of mind you have, and how you care for your fellow man -- what you can do to help others who can be helped by no one else.