The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Relief is happiness for those who, otherwise, would have no happiness.

Shared pain is lessened.
Shared joy is increased.

So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Joy is the reward, really, of seeking to give joy to others. When you show compassion, when you show caring, when you show love to others, do things for others, in a wonderful way you have a deep joy that you can get in no other way. You can’t buy it with money. You can be the richest person on Earth, but if you care only about yourself, I can bet my bottom dollar you will not be happy and joyful. But when you are caring, compassionate, more concerned about the welfare of others than about your own, wonderfully, wonderfully, you suddenly feel a warm glow in your heart, because you have, in fact, wiped the tears from the eyes of another.

While there might be a lot of pain and sacrifice, we certainly see joy as well. We save more patients than we lose, we get to help a lot of people, and that more than makes up for the bad times. In my field, ‘Accident & Emergency’, it is possible to see a patient turn around in a few minutes, and that makes it worth it.

[On service] Giving feels good. It's a form of healing. Not just for you as an individual, but for everyone.

That is all that makes life worth our while — to do good deeds and to help those less fortunate than ourselves.

The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.

Human suffering is a positive thing, which requires a positive answer, and sad as it is, the word is beautiful, because of the absolute truth it contains.[...] It is an error to believe that we can be happy in perfect calm and clearness, as abstract as a formula. We are made too much out of shadow and some form of suffering. If everything that hurts us were to be removed, what would remain?

When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out.

Shared joy is increased;
Shared pain is lessened.

Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased; thus do we refute entropy.

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.