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.
The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.
-Nicholas Sparks
"Dear John"
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yesterday I was sad, today I am happy! Yesterday I had a problem; today I still have the same problem! But today I changed the way I look at it!
-C. Joy Bell C.
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
-Ray Bradbury
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
-Jules Renard
"The Journal of Jules Renard"
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
