Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and do something for them we miss the greatest sources of happiness.

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.

Happiness begins where selfishness ends.

Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world.

Love is wanting others to be happy.

Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.

If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness.

I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable - and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things. It is a by-product, never a primary goal.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.

Love, compassion and concern for others are real sources of happiness. If you have these in abundance, you will not be disturbed even by the most uncomfortable circumstances. If you nurse hatred, however, you will not be happy even in the lap of luxury. Thus, if we really want happiness, we must widen the sphere of love. This is both religious thinking and basic common sense.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

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

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

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

True contentment comes with empathy.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always empathic. It's always kind and compassionate.