Frederick Buechner Quotes

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

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.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

When I see people that are my age and reaching 50, the ones that are really sparkly and full of joy are the ones that are committed to something bigger than themselves.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

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.

The great happiness in life is not to donate but to serve.

Happy persons seldom think of happiness. They are too busy losing their lives in the meaningful sacrifices of service.

Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love.

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

I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .

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

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

I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

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.

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

People used to ask me how I got my jollies, and I guess I'm happy when what I'm doing is helping people and unhappy when what I'm doing isn't helping people.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.

To have a meaningful life, you have to be of service …

Go forth Monks and bring happiness to the many.

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