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.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
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.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
-George Washington
