Ruta SepetysThey were happy to help someone, to succeed at something, even if they weren't to benefit.
About This Quote
They were happy to help someone, to succeed at something, even if they weren't to benefit. Meaning the act of helping someone without expectations is the act of kindness that grants happiness. And this happiness itself is the greatest reward that can be achieved by helping another person.
Source: Between Shades Of Gray
Some Similar Quotes
- I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me.
- Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to...
- Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you
- We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.
- Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.
More Quotes By Ruta Sepetys
- Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.
- Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.
- How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he have...
- I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.
- ...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.