Russell Simmons Quotes

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.

The real joy in life comes from giving. It comes from service. It comes from doing things for other people. That is what is so powerful about this. Nothing will make you happier than giving.

Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.

Lasting joy is found not in what you get, but in what you give.

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

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

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

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

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.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

There's no greater source of happiness than giving yourself to other people.

Giving is the most self-satisfying thing you can ever do.

The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift.

True happiness comes only by making others happy—the practical application of the Savior's doctrine of losing one's life to gain it. In short, the Christmas spirit is the Christ spirit, that makes our hearts glow in brotherly love and friendship and prompts us to kind deeds of service.

Yes, there truly is a joy to giving.

The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.

I suppose "giving without expecting anything in return" isn't something new, but it always pushes your happy button when you do it or see it.

There is great joy in doing something for somebody else with no thought in receiving anything in return.

The happiest people are the most giving people

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

Joy arises only in creating joy for others; there is no other way. The more people you can make happy, the more you will feel happy. This is the real meaning of service.

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.

True humility means giving joy to others.