Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

This will wreck you! Today, treat everyone you meet as if they're going to be dead by midnight. extend all the kindness and understanding you can, and do it with no thought of any reward.

Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world.

To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself

The simplest way to be happy is to do good.

I suppose "giving without expecting anything in return" isn't something new, but it always pushes your happy button when you do it or see it.

Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.

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.

A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.

We don't have to be good, you know? No one's telling us that we have to do good things, but we do them because we know it makes other people feel good and it makes us feel good.

If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to actively doing good, and this can be a source of great joy and inner confidence. We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.

You can have the 'golden rule' - do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther - where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.

Let's be the kind of people that do good for others whether we get paid back or not, whether they say thank you or not.

We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.

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

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.

For me, I think everybody with half a heart tries to do their best to do their part of good during the holiday season.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

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

Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.