John Burroughs Quotes

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

To be happy, make other people happy.

If you want to be happy, make others happy!

I love to be happy. I think you are happy if you make somebody else happy around you.

I think if you make others happy you are contented.

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

I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

If you are trying to be happy and trying to be kind, you've already won.

When I help people around me. It gives me immense happiness.

I've decided, because we have a short time here, that those of us that create joy and happiness, that's a really noble thing.

It's the most beautiful job in the world to give happiness to people.

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

I am in constant search of charitable work and thank Allah that I am happy, that my children are happy, and I like that all of my family is happy.

I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .

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.

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

I just want to make everyone happy.

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.

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

I've always found that the poorer the places that I go, the more smiles I see, and the more happiness I see.