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.
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but its here if you choose to come back to it.
-Ilona Andrews
"Magic Bleeds"
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
