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 is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
-Mary Baker Eddy
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
-Andy Rooney
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
-Robert Brault
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction not from satisfaction of vitals or body.
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called ‘All The Things That Could Go Wrong’.
-Marianne Williamson
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The Social Contract and Discourses"
