Mariska Hargitay Quotes

As I get, I give. Giving as you get is critical. It has everything to do with being happy for yourself, and making others happy is the cause of making yourself happy, and it's the cycle of giving and getting.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

It's like 'Pay It Forward.' Everyone has seen that movie. If someone teaches you something that helps you in your life, why not pass it along and help the next person?

When you treat people with massive respect and kindness, amazing to me how they return your respect and kindness 100X...even though you expected zero in return.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

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

It helps me when I help people.

Every time you get something, give something away.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

I know it sounds cliche, but to give back is important. Sometimes we're given so much, we need to do something for other people. I think that's really important.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

Trying to give back a little bit is important.

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

If you can't pay it back, pay it forward.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

For it is in giving that we receive.

To be happy, make other people happy.