Theodore Dreiser Quotes

When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

If a person thinks he can be happy without making those around him happy, he's crazy.

To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.

He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.

And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others

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.

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.

In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.

But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared.

Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad.

There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.

If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

I happy am, if well with you.

If you want to feel more comfortable and happy, work on making the people around you more comfortable and happy.

The more we feel concern for others and seek their well-being, the more friends we will have and the more welcome we will feel.

Lesson no. 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love.

The fastest way to your own happiness is to make another happy.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. i have to believe that’s a sign.

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

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able to bring relief, or bring back the smile to one person, not only that person profits, but you also profit.

But the "wise" person understands something else— that we are all connected and, therefore, his or her own happiness must include the happiness of others.

I think family, friends and a sense of community give you greater happiness than money. But, of course, one has to have a minimum on which to live. The joy I get from sitting around and having a laugh is immeasurable - much greater than anything that I have ever bought.