Honore de Balzac Quotes

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

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.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

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.

I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

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

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

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.

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

If you want to be happy, make others happy!

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of 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.

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

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

The noblest art is that of making others happy.

I feel I have this joy in my heart. I just want to make people feel.

Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and that is how I think we have to work.

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.

In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.

Those who are willing to sacrifice and be of service have very little difficulty with people. They know what they are all about. People can't help but want to be near them. They help them; they work with them. That's what love is all about. It starts with your heart and radiates out.

No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.