Raj Patel Quotes

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.

Joy makes us want to invest more deeply in the people around us. It makes us want to learn more about our communities. It makes us want to be able to find ways of being able to make this a better external world for all of us.

The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.

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

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

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.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Are we truly being our sisters' keepers? Initially, that dog-eat-dog mentality within us may bark and say that we aren't responsible for other people, but if that was truly the case, then why are we even here? We have so much to offer and give to this world.

I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.

We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

I feel we all have a stake in our community as much as we do in our own spirits, and seeking avenues of generosity is the direct path to peace among us.

We have lost the art of sharing and caring.

At its core Twitter is about sharing, and I think that in life we never feel better or more energized than when we're giving to someone else.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.