Happiness and Suffering

Todays quote is about happiness and suffering, How true, I sometimes feel life has not changed from ages, even though we had been here for more than 5000 years, but still the very old teachings are so much valid.  I guess these are beyond time, distance. Even hold true for generations and generations after.

"There is happiness in life,
  happiness in friendship,
  happiness of a family,
  happiness in a healthy body and mind,
...but when one loses them,there is suffering.
 Happiness does not last forever, and no one can escape sufferings and death"  - Gauthama Buddha

He speaks about Sufferings, well Sufferings and happiness does not last for ever. Well its added with a story...

Once there was a woman named Kisagotami, whose first-born son died.
She was so stricken with grief that she roamed the streets carrying the
dead body and asking for help to bring her son back to life. A kind and
wise man took her to the Buddha.

The Buddha told her, "Fetch me a handful of mustard seeds and I will
bring your child back to life." Joyfully Kisagotami started off to get
them. Then the Buddha added, "But the seeds must come from a family that
has not known death."

Kisagotami went from door to door in the whole village asking for the
mustard seeds, but everyone said, "Oh, there have been many deaths here",
"I lost my father", I lost my sister". She could not find a single household
that had not been visited by death. Finally Kisagotami returned to the
Buddha and said, "There is death in every family. Everyone dies. Now I
understand your teaching."

The Buddha said, "No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people
expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed."

Then he speaks about Karma - Nothing ever happens to us unless we deserves
it. We receive exactly what we earn, whether it is good or bad. well this is explained as . :)

"The kind of seed sown

 will produce that kind of fruit.

 Those who do good will reap good results.

 Those who do evil will reap evil results.

 If you carefully plant a good seed,

 You will joyfully gather good fruit."

All very true :) .. Well these things calms me lot... Takes off the anger, tension, happiness, sadness in me. In this world all u get  is what u deserve to get.