Happiness - A By-Product

2006-03-30 Posted at 07:13:35 AM

Happiness is a by-product.

We can't buy it, because it has no price.

Some people try to purchase happiness by getting drunk; others build fine houses, and some travel around the world.

But the goal is as elusive as the horizon.

The main issue in life is service, and happiness is incidental to service.

To try to win happiness from the world without serving the world is like trying to distill gasoline from water instead of from crude oil.  It can't be done.

Thje contractor who erects an honest, substantial buildilng wins happiness.

The statesman who forwards the cause of humanity wins happiness.

The judge who reads the law in the light of common sense wins happiness.

Those reckless fellows who balance themselves on four-inch beams, ten stories above ground, and toss white-hot rivets back and forth, win happiness.

The law of happiness is as inexorable as the law of gravitation.

Without service there shall be no happiness, says nature.

And it's a good law, too.

     --  Author Unknown

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Fran Watson

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