Alexandra Petri Quotes

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy - that's when happiness happens.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

To be happy, make other people happy.

I've always found that the poorer the places that I go, the more smiles I see, and the more happiness I see.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

If you want to be happy, make others happy!

It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.

We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.

What's fulfilling is being happy and being able to help other people. The simple things.

It takes very little effort to make someone happy.

I've decided, because we have a short time here, that those of us that create joy and happiness, that's a really noble thing.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

I am in constant search of charitable work and thank Allah that I am happy, that my children are happy, and I like that all of my family is happy.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

I truly believe my job is to make sure people smile.

Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!