Russell Simmons Quotes

For me, happiness is doing my best and trying to be helpful.

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.

I am in constant search of charitable work and thank Allah that I am happy, that my children are happy, and I like that all of my family is happy.

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy - that's when happiness happens.

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.

I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

I just serve others through entertaining. That's when I am happy.

I love to be happy. I think you are happy if you make somebody else happy around you.

I'm not invincible. I am not picture-perfect. The reason I am here is not because of the money; if I get to entertain people and put a smile on their face, I feel content.

I think if you make others happy you are contented.

Not everything has to be a money-making operation. You do things sometimes because it makes you feel good.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

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.

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.