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.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
-Jacques Prévert
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
Human intelligence lies in making such choices that whatever he desires or
attains out of them...the end result should only be happiness.
-Deep Trivedi
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
