Quote by Gerald G. Jampolsky

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be ha

Summary

By actively allowing ourselves to assist and support others, we can discover a profound source of happiness that can counteract feelings of depression. This quote suggests that by focusing on and extending kindness, empathy, and support towards others, we redirect our attention from our own negative thoughts and emotions. In doing so, we cultivate a sense of purpose, fulfillment, and connection, which can aid in alleviating our own depressive tendencies and enable us to find true happiness.

Topics

Service

By Gerald G. Jampolsky

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains wor

That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work...It would be more useful than divination, anyway...

Harry Potter Girls

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harms we do, we do to ourselves.

Mitch Albom, The Five People You

Anger

Weaklings must lie.

Weaklings must lie.

Jean Paul Richter

Weakness

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian,

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

Beauty

Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would st

Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.

Love Dreams Butterfly Weeds

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

Science

The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It

The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.

Depression

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and th

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Best

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.

Sparky Anderson

Charity

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell

Doubt

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's wh

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.

Time Age

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his lif

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Authors & Writing