Francois Lelord Quotes

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

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.

Through your love for each other, through learning the art of making one person happy, you learn to express your love for the whole of humanity and all beings. Please help us develop the curriculum for the Institute for the Happiness of One Person. Don't wait until we open the school. You can begin practicing right away.

In Community of Caring, we believe the quality of caring we give to our parents, to our brothers and sisters, to our families, to our friends and neighbors, and to the poor and the powerless endows a life, a community with respect, hope and happiness.

To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.

Even more important than the warmth and affection we receive, is the warmth and affection we give. It is by giving warmth and affection, by having a genuine sense of concern for others, in other words through compassion, that we gain the conditions for genuine happiness. More important than being loved, therefore, is to love.

That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people.

I believe in love, children and being a good person.

As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

I come from a family with big hearts, so I love to put smiles on people's faces.

There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature - these are the only objects worth being attached to.

The accolades don't nourish me - being with loved ones and my dogs does.

Love means being happy, and it is that magical feeling which you get around people you love. Be it friends, family. It could mean different to different people, but to me, it is just being kind and happy with each other.

In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.

One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.

No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.

Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad.

It's curious how, when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.