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Happiness Comes Through Giving

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Dec 5, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 49.

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Happiness Comes Through Giving

“Happiness eludes every searcher for it, but comes quickly and abundantly to the one who seeks to bestow it upon some one else. The searcher for happiness may get wealth, and power, and fame, but none of these advantages will avail anything in getting happiness. Even from friends it can not be gotten, for happiness comes from what is given out rather than from that which is gathered in. Loving, unselfish service, the persistent, enthusiastic effort day by day to bring sweetness, light, comfort, and goodness into the lives of others will surely bring happiness into the life of any man, or woman, or child. No sorrow of heart, no doubt of the future, no restlessness or aimlessness of the present, no loneliness or bitterness of soul, but will yield and be resolved into joy and peace and purpose as soon as the days are filled with labors of love—as soon as the eagerness to get happiness is replaced by an eagerness to give it.”