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.
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
-Dale Carnegie
"How to Win Friends and Influence People"
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
-Tom Bodett
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
