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Quotes About Generosity

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Human beings are wired to care and give and it's probably our best route to happiness.
~ Dacher Keltner
When somebody elses happiness makes you happy, it means you are a person with a big heart.
~ Jenni Rivera
If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.
~ Will Smith
As you forget self in service to others, you will find that, without seeking it, your own cup of happiness will be full.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service.
~ Harbhajan Singh
I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.
~ David Letterman
Happiness may be found only by helping others to find it.
~ Napoleon Hill
You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.
~ Maya Angelou
Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns.
~ John Templeton
We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.
~ Robert Breault
Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.
~ William B. Ogden
Altruism is the best source of happiness. There is no doubt about that.
~ Dalai Lama
I get angry when someone calls me only rich.. I am happy with my social personality and my generosity.
~ Sak?p Sabanc?
I like to move towards a place where my greatest experience is promoting happiness for others. I know that that creates a cycle of the same great experience.
~ Russell Simmons
We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
~ B. C. Forbes
Happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found.
~ Thomas Merton
Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others
~ Denis Waitley
When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
No happiness gives happiness until you share it with someone.
~ Lokendra Singh
In fact there are beautiful people in this world doing incredibly selfless acts over and over and over. Dedicating their lives completely for the welfare and happiness of others.
~ Tenzin Palmo
Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared.
~ Julien Benda
The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.
~ Gretchen Rubin