Paulo Coelho Quotes

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.

Happiness is like a kiss, in order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else.

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.

Genuine love will always feel urged to communicate joy - to be a joy-giver. Mankind needs joy.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

I just want other people to know the kind of joy that I have in my life. I want other people to be able to have fun.

I would rather see a game where you play to feel happier and to make other people like you and to make the people you care about happy.

It's not easy to put a smile on people's faces.

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.

If I can bring joy into the world, then I'll be successful.

If you would be happy, render a kind service, make somebody else happy.

Happiness and joy comes to you when it moves through you. There is no other pathway--and that's the miracle. You will have a number of opportunities in the days just ahead to be a vehicle of happiness and joy for another. Step right into that. Be the source of that. As you bring others to a smile, so, too, will you bring yourself. The method is foolproof.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.

The more generous we are, the more joyous we become.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

It's a very nice thing to be able to give joy to people.

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

I believe in living for this world - that's my doctrine - to make everybody happy that you can.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude.