All seasons are beautiful for the
person who carries happiness within." – Horace Friess
Happiness is as a butterfly
which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down
quietly, may alight upon you.Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any
unpleasant thing that has passed. We begin from the recognition that all beings
cherish happiness and do not want suffering. Happiness is the meaning
and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants
suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from
external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in
a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy. Men spend their lives in anticipations, in
determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the
present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own. Past
opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of
pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of
them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. Very little is needed
to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Most
people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. People spend a lifetime searching
for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions,
religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them.
The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within
Philosophers, scientists, and comedians have taught us a lot about
happiness. Maybe one of the most important lessons they’ve taught us is
to look inward for happiness. Sometimes it’s right in front of you and
you just have to grab it. They’ve also taught us that our thought
patterns can limit or enable our happiness. They’ve taught us that
happiness isn’t static. They’ve taught us that happiness isn’t
about things. In fact, sometimes it’s about doing … doing what we love.
I think the key themes boil
down to how we talk to ourselves, how we respond to things, how we make
meaning, who we spend time with, and how we make the most of what we’ve
got. The other key thing is that happiness is dynamic and it’s not
a static state. It’s about living, learning and growing, and rolling with
the punches. I also think it’s important to think of happiness as a
skill. Drive from happiness. For durable happiness, lead your
happiness from the inside out. Most importantly – enjoy the process. Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace
and gratitude.Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in
being where you belong, and second -and best -in comfortably going through
everyday life, that is, having had a good night’s sleep and not being hurt by
new shoes. There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we
crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always
attained by giving them to someone else. When we feel love and kindness
toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps
us also to develop inner happiness and peace. I guess there is neither
happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to
another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to
experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may
appreciate the enjoyments of life.
Even a
happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would
lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. We humans are social beings. We
come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in
dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of
our lives when we do not benefit from others’ activities. For this reason it is
hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our
relationships with others. Being happy is something you
have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying "Wow, this is it. I guess
I'm happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at
peace with myself." If there's something else to happiness, let me know.
I'm ambitious for that, too. The happiness of your life depends upon the
quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you
entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Happiness is a journey, not a
destination; happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road,
for then the journey is over and it's too late. The time for happiness is today
not tomorrow. We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying
what we do have--and not worrying about what we don't have. It is neither wealth nor
splendor, but tranquillity and occupation, which give happiness. The happiest people seem to be
those who have no particular reason for being so except that they are so.
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