Tim Finn Quotes

Happiness begins where selfishness ends.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

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

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

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

The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

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.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy - that's when happiness happens.

I'm a believer that the more I'm giving, the happier I am, and the more beautiful my exterior will be.

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

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

We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.

What's fulfilling is being happy and being able to help other people. The simple things.