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.
Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
-Jacques Prévert
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
-Jenny O'connell
"The Book of Luke"
There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
Rain clouds come floating in, not to muddy my days ahead, but to make me calm, happy and hopeful.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
