Giving presents is a talent to know what a person wants to know when and how to get it to give it lovingly and well.
~ Pamela Glenconner
The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.
~ Grenville Kleiser
There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.
~ Rose Pastor Stokes
He who does not live in some degree for others hardly lives for himself.
~ Michel De Montaigne
It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
Love is a choice-not simply or necessarily a rational choice but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.
~ Carter Heyward
I wish that every child could have growing space because I think children are a little like plants. If they grow too close together they become thin and sickly and never obtain maximum growth. We need room to grow.
~ Peace Pilgrim
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
~ Ben Sweetland
What I spent is gone what I kept I lost but what I gave away will be mine forever.
~ Ethel Percy Andrus
In helping others we shall help ourselves for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.
~ Flora Edwards
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.
~ Holly Ketchel
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Happiness ... is achieved only by making others happy.
~ Stuart Cloete
The most infectiously joyous men and women are those who forget themselves in thinking about others and serving others.
~ Robert J. Mccracken
Giving opens the way for receiving.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Fill the cup of happiness for others and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help the desire to serve.
~ Marianne Williamson
He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The closer I'm bound in love to you the closer I am to free.
~ Indigo Girls
True religion ... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
Power is the ability to do good things for others.
~ Brooke Astor
If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.
Pleasure is a reciprocal no one feels it who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased one must please.
~ Lord Chesterfield
When their children flourish almost all mothers have a sense of well-being.
~ Sara Ruddick
If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.
~ George Matthew Adams
To devote a portion of one's leisure to doing something for someone else is one of the highest forms of recreation.
~ Gerald B. Fitzgerald
Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
~ Madame De Maintenon
Anything done for another is done for oneself.
~ Boniface Viii
What we frankly give forever is our own.
~ George Granville
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful kindly things for others.
~ B. C. Forbes
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
~ John Andrew Holmes
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Help your brother's boat across and your own will reach the shore.
~ Hindu Proverb
Be unselfish.... If you think of yourself only you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
~ Charles W. Eliot
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.
~ Lydia M. Child
Happiness ... consists in giving and in serving others.
~ Henry Drummond
Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests we easily become despondent. But when we work for others our efforts return to bless us.
~ Sidney Powell
