J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.

Go forth Monks and bring happiness to the many.

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.

I really just want to spread my love and happiness toward other people.

There's nothing that I own that really makes me as happy as knowing that the people around me are all good.

In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.

As we are set free by that love from our own pride and fear, our own greed and arrogance, so we are free in our turn to be agents of reconciliation and hope, or healing and love.

Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love.

Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.

His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.

For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.

The greatest joys and the greatest sorrows we experience are in family relationships. The joys come from putting the welfare of others above our own. That is what love is. And the sorrow comes primarily from selfishness, which is the absence of love. The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.

Nearly every moment of every day we have the opportunity to give something to someone else—our time, our love, our resources. I have always found more joy in giving when I did not expect anything in return.

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.

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.

Christian love is loving without counting the cost. This is the lesson of the Good Samaritan; this is the lesson of Jesus.

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.

Charity is indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us unto God himself, as far as that is possible; for it is charity which makes the man.