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You can't save the world...save YOUR heart. Be a catalyst & create a life where you are powerful. Rebel. Be happy & allow others happiness.

You can't save the world...save YOUR heart. Be a catalyst & create a life where you are powerful. Rebel. Be happy & allow others happiness.

Andy Biersack
Powerful, Heart, Others Happiness
Twitter post from Jul 30, 2011

Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.

Gautama Buddha
Compassion, Others Happiness, Giving

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

Henry Ward Beecher
Others Happiness, Selfishness, Expenses
Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.243

...if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Others Happiness, Needs, Lips
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus”, p.197, First Avenue Editions

Ever-new Joy is God. He is inexhaustible; as you continue your meditations during the years, He will beguile you with an infinite ingenuity. Devotees like yourself who have found the way to God never dream of exchanging Him for any other happiness; He is seductive beyond thought of competition.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Dream, Others Happiness, Years
Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi: (Complete Edition)”, p.151, Yogoda Satsanga Society of India

Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.

Immanuel Kant
Men, Animal, Others Happiness
Immanuel Kant (1986). “Philosophical Writings”, Continuum

Our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness.

Dalai Lama
Impact, Others Happiness, Dimensions
The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.42, Hachette UK

As a young woman, I was so eager to please that I served others' happiness and even their values before my own. It didn't earn me love, but it did deliver me to a place where I had to choose between what I thought of myself and what other people did. I chose myself.

Kathryn Harrison
Others Happiness, People, Young
"Why Author Kathryn Harrison Wants Her Writing to 'Destroy Your Equilibrium'". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.oprah.com. November 2014.

Happiness in marriage and parenthood can exceed a thousand times any other happiness

James E. Faust
Marriage, Others Happiness, Parenthood

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others." "happiness is when I see others happy. Happiness is a shared thing. I feel very diminished happiness if it is something I enjoy myself.

Desmond Tutu
Others Happiness, Recipes, Want

I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the cost of others' happiness. Be true to your friends. Remembering to find some wonder and hope in the world. Basically it boils down to: treat people like you'd like them to treat you, leave the world a little better than it was when you got here, respect others and stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves.

Charles de Lint
Others Happiness, Blood, People

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