Joyce Meyer Quotes

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.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

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 ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.

Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.

There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . Inorder to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not inself-seeking but in self-forgetting.

The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.

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.

I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

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

As long as folks are happy, I'm happy.

When I help people around me. It gives me immense happiness.

I think if you make others happy you are contented.

There's nothing that I own that really makes me as happy as knowing that the people around me are all good.

I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that.

Happiness begins where selfishness ends.

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal.

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

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.

Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.

Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.