Bernard Cornwell Quotes

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.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

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.

I don't spend any time thinking about my place in history, ever. If people say I changed things, it's nice, and I take it - but if I could give it to a charity it would be useful. I really believe now that my only job in life is to achieve a state of comfort and happiness.

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.

See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

I just serve others through entertaining. That's when I am happy.

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

If you are not happy, you will never be able to give happiness to others.

I think if you make others happy you are contented.

Not everything has to be a money-making operation. You do things sometimes because it makes you feel good.

Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.

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

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

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.

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

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

It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.