David Levithan Quotes

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

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.

There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and do something for them we miss the greatest sources of happiness.

The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.

If you have no wish to bring others to heaven, you are not going there yourself.

What is pity but the vice of kindness.

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.

Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.

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

The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.

I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.

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.

To be happy, make other people happy.

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

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.

Our God who created all of us is the God who calls all of us to care for one another. I think that's going to be one of the big, big challenges of the future, helping refocus on the needs of others.

Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.

… true evangelical faith ... clothes the naked; feeds the hungry; consoles the afflicted; shelters the miserable; aids and consoles all the oppressed; returns good for evil; serves those that injure it; prays for those that persecute it.

I'm all about trying to help others out there and giving the best advice based on my experiences - so if I can continue to do that, I'm really happy.

I get true joy out of that, being able to help people.

When I help people around me. It gives me immense happiness.

Sometimes in life, we try to do our very best to help others, and in the process, it brings some anguish to us. But we can't ever let that stop us. We can't ever be stopped from helping others and allowing them to have some sense of happiness and joy in their life.

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