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.
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
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.
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
-Andy Rooney
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
