Mark Twain Quotes

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

True contentment comes with empathy.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

I'm very empathetic - that might be one of my superpowers.

If you empathize with your fellow humans on stage, you can't help but do so offstage as well.

Why would anybody say no to somebody's happiness?

I always want to make everyone happy.

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

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

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share food, for instance, with their siblings and with kids that are around. They will sooth. If they see somebody else in pain, even the youngest of toddlers will try to reach out and pat the person.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

If I can't be happy, nobody can be happy.

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

My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.

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.

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.