"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)

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