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.
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
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
I am so happy in your happiness. To you, happiness is a form of freedom, and of all the people I know you should be free.
-Khalil Gibran
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
Nothing in the world can make you happy; everything in the world can encourage you to be happy.
-Robert Holden
"Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good FAST"
