With a genuine keenness or readiness to serve others, one can attain happiness in any group or community, and the eagerness to serve others will endow you with the power and skill necessary for the required service. Nowadays, we tend to regard it as derogatory to serve, but there is great worth in service.
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-Eric Hoffer
If you closely observe life, you will find, here with every pleasure there is pain...
and with every pain, pleasure. Hence, among all that is happening, if you keep
your eyes fixed only at the brighter side of it, you can always be happy.
-Deep Trivedi
Lao Tan said, “I was letting my mind wander in the beginning of things.”
“What does this mean?” asked Confucius. Lao Tan said, “It means to attain Perfect Beauty and wander in Perfect Happiness. He who attains Perfect Beauty and wanders in Perfect Happiness may be called the Perfect Man.”
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise.
-Debra Anastasia
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
