Sharon Salzberg Quotes

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

Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad.

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

You feel touched and honored and alive when you give to someone.

Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past.

Lasting joy is found not in what you get, but in what you give.

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.

To be happy, make other people happy.

If you want to be happy, make others happy!

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

True contentment comes with empathy.

The noblest art is that of making others happy.

If I can make someone's day brighter, happier, better, that makes me happier.

Selfishly, it feels great for me to do something that might put a smile on someone else's face.

Yes, there truly is a joy to giving.

The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.

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.

I really, really try to be a good servant. It makes me happy when I'm a good giver without expectations.

There is no greater enjoyment than that of sharing something. Have you given something to somebody? That's why people enjoy giving gifts so much. It is a sheer delight. When you give something to somebody - maybe valueless, may not be of much value - but just the way, just the gesture that you give, satisfies tremendously. Just think of a person whose whole life is a gift! whose every moment is a sharing - he lives in heaven. There is no other heaven than that.

The happiest people are the most giving people

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.

When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.

The more generous we are, the more joyous we become.

Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.