Ed Sullivan Quotes

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.

Make others truly happy as you strive to make yourself happy. Speak a helpful word. Give a cheering smile. Do a kind act. Serve a little. Wipe the tears of one who is in distress. Render smooth a rough place in another's path. You will feel great joy.

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

We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.

To be happy, make other people happy.

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

You can't focus on yourself. You need to focus on what you're doing for others, and then you can start to heal.

Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.

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

The simplest way to be happy is to do good.

Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.

Kindness can change the lives of people.

Doing great things for others is an awesome gift to give yourself.

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

Give now. Somewhere, someone feels crappy. You can help.

Loving and energizing others is the best possible thing we can do for ourselves.

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

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

To do something for other people when they need it most just feels good.

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

Everything good that's ever happened to me came out of helping others.

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