Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Have you known what it is to give your meal to another and to go without yourself? It gives a happiness that no dinner eaten by yourself can give. Have you known what it is to give your coat to another and do without it yourself? It gives a joy that the satisfaction of your own wants cannot give you.

Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.

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.

The only thing you can do with your life is give it away. The best, happiest moments in your life are always when you're giving something away.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

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

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

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.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.