Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.

How a person seems to show up for us is intimately connected to how we choose to show up for them.

I surrender myself, that I might be used in bringing the end of suffering to all

I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Holmes, in one of his queer humors, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V. R. done in bullet-pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it.

You can get anything you want in this life if you help enough other people get what they want.

self-interest is not the same as selfishness.

It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or the improvement of my fellow creatures.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

Jesus did not begin His ministry by some great work before the Sanhedrin at Jerusalem. At a household gathering in a little Galilean village His power was put forth to add to the joy of a wedding feast. Thus He showed His sympathy with men, and His desire to minister to their happiness. In the wilderness of temptation He Himself had drunk the cup of woe. He came forth to give to men the cup of blessing, by His benediction to hallow the relations of human life.

Our Saviour identifies His interest with that of suffering humanity.

I should not want to live unless I could live to do some good to others.

If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.