James Freeman Clarke Quotes

What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

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

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Being nice can make you feel very happy.

What's fulfilling is being happy and being able to help other people. The simple things.

Be happy in what you do. Be respectful of yourself. Do good works for others, and the goodness will come back to you and make you a better person. I think that's what happiness is all about.

When I help people around me. It gives me immense happiness.

I think if you make others happy you are contented.

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

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

I am in constant search of charitable work and thank Allah that I am happy, that my children are happy, and I like that all of my family is happy.

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

The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

I just want to make everyone happy.

I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy - that's when happiness happens.

I just want to be happy. You know what I'm saying? I just want to be happy, and I want to be able to make somebody else happy.

There is physical evidence of the body's response to doing good. Endorphins are released in the brain when you do something for someone else. Doing good really feels good.

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 is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.