Karen Salmansohn Quotes

Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.

Be kind. It feels good.

Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.

A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another." Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.

Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another.

Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone.

To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.

Everyone's goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.

There's no better feeling than making somebody smile.

Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.

It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time - and they feel that you are trying - to make them happy. And you rarely can make another happy, unless you are happy yourself.

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.

We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion are in out hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle

The way to be happy is to make others so.

In the end, what really matters? Only kindness. Only making somebody a little happier for your presence.

Genuine happiness comes from focusing on the happiness of others.

You should do something that will make your heart dance once a day. If you can't do that because you're too depressed, then do something that will make somebody else's heart dance.

We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.

There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots; you have got to go the regular turnpike road.

Stop looking to everyone else to make you happy and start finding ways that you can make other people happy.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

I'm a happy person, and I want everybody else to be happy. Nothing wrong with that.

I really don't like hurting people; I like making people feel good.

Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.