Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

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

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

I'm not an ambitious person. I'm very content, and I have no pending dreams. God has given me so much, and if there's one thing I really want to do, it's to serve the people.

I just serve others through entertaining. That's when I am happy.

The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

When I see people that are my age and reaching 50, the ones that are really sparkly and full of joy are the ones that are committed to something bigger than themselves.

There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and that makes the difference.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupation third, that's when I've found success.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

I'm happy to have nothing, so long as I'm sure I've been working.

I think from what I personally know, I am really quite proud of most of the people I know who have 'made it,' who do things to help people.

Not everything has to be a money-making operation. You do things sometimes because it makes you feel good.

One thing faith always did for me is it gave me perspective that, yeah, I was to maximize my gift and talents in the area of football, but it was always a means to glorify God and represent God.

Happy persons seldom think of happiness. They are too busy losing their lives in the meaningful sacrifices of service.

Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service.

The less I spent on myself and the more I gave to others, the fuller of happiness and blessing did my soul become.

God has put people in your life on purpose, Don't live to get, live to give.

My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

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.