"A
good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years
cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end."
--
OVID (circa AD 8)
"Happiness
is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy."
-- Gretta Brooker
Palmer.
"It
is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it
elsewhere."
-- Agnes Repplier
Since
you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt |
|
Happiness
is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
-- Margaret Lee Runbeck
(1905-1956)
| "The good life,
as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will
be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good."
-- Bertrand
Russell Anything
you're good at contributes to happiness.
-- Bertrand
Russell | |
The
secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let
your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible
friendly rather than hostile.
-- Bertrand
Russell
If
there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own
happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise
in a few years.
-- Bertrand
Russell
"No
joy can equal the joy of serving others."
-- Sai Baba
Let
a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
-- Carl
Sandburg
 |
"I don't
know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."
-- Albert Schweitzer
|
"I
wish you all the joy that you can wish."
-- William Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice)
 | I
think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and
the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.
-- Martin Sheen |
"Noble
deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression."
-- Dodie Smith
"Contentment
is natural wealth."
-- Socrates (c 470- 399 BC)
