Sympathy is the highest form of altruism. As stated in this quote, compassion can bring happiness to both you and others. However, this requires practice. Start by caring for those around you, observing their needs and finding ways to meet them. Even if you do not explicitly display your sympathy, it will naturally manifest over time.
If we cannot build a happy life, we have no right to enjoy happiness; just as one has no right to enjoy wealth without creating it. — George Bernard Shaw
In this life, to know you is a blessing.
Those who do not acknowledge their own happiness cannot be truly happy.
Having a soulmate friend is itself a form of happiness. — Mori Oga
Happiness is to live for others and sacrifice oneself.
Happiness does not lie in external causes, but in our attitude toward them. A person accustomed to hard work and endurance is unlikely to be unhappy.
I have learned the way to seek happiness: to limit my desires, rather than trying to satisfy them. — John Milton
When happiness arrives, people often overlook it. Once we deliberately pursue it, happiness flies away like a high-flying goose, forever out of reach. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Having someone to think of is also a kind of happiness.