Peter Kreeft Quotes

In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

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.

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

Why would anybody say no to somebody's happiness?

Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.

It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.

Love is wanting others to be happy.

I want her to be happy. It's worth sacrificing myself.

Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

Genuine happiness comes from focusing on the happiness of others.

The more you give yourself to others, the more joy and peace will flow into your own life.

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

When one is giving service for the advancement of humanity, when one is working without money and without price, with no hope of earthly reward, there comes a real, genuine joy into the human heart.

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

I've always been attracted to girls whose hearts are the biggest thing about them. People can be very sweet and kind to others who can do a lot for them. I want to find a girl who will be the same person to those who can't do anything for her in return.

Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.

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.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.