Marla Gibbs Quotes

The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

So get accomplished what you want to get accomplished in your life. And in the intervals, do what you can to help other people.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

I love helping people; just being of service makes me happy!

I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you figure out what you want to do with your own life.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

To be loved is important as is having a sense of accomplishment but to love is equally important in life especially when it is combined with taking action to do something for someone else to make their life better.

You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.

Who is my biggest inspiration? Wow... I really, without wanting to sound 'aw gee shucks,' I'd have to say my wife who taught a rather uptight Englishman what there is to be got out of life. Susan is my greatest inspiration. She has more integrity than anyone I know, and integrity is more important than anything for a happy and successful life.

I hope that what I am today is of positive benefit to other people.

Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.

I think the most surprising thing about giving is it takes a while to find out what you're really interested in and what you really want to do.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

The noblest art is that of making others happy.

I always want to be a person who challenges herself to be a better person and spends her time giving rather than receiving.

I believe that love gives you the freedom and power to share your best self and to inspire others.

Be happy in what you do. Be respectful of yourself. Do good works for others, and the goodness will come back to you and make you a better person. I think that's what happiness is all about.