Albert Camus Quotes

Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.

If you are not happy, you will never be able to give happiness to others.

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.

I want you to be.... happy.

Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.

The way to be happy is to make others so.

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.

I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do.

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

If you are trying to be happy and trying to be kind, you've already won.

Be kind. It feels good.

Being nice can make you feel very happy.

Making people smile makes me feel good from the inside.

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.

The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.

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

Happiness and a positive attitude are gifts you can pass along. So get out there and start giving.

Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another.

Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone.

To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Don't live to be unhappy, live to be happy. If you live to be happy you'll find the things that make you happy. And as you do that you find that sharing with others makes you much happier than taking from them.

Happiness begins where selfishness ends.