If we are unable to find happiness in ourselves, it is not possible to find it elsewhere...
We are the wellspring of our own happiness. Our happiness resides within us. No one else and nothing else can give it to us. We may try to find all kinds of things outside ourselves to fill us up and make us happy, but they are all short-lived.
We think success, recognition, respect, money and prestige will do it for us. But the truth is they're nice for a while, and the feeling lingers that there is something missing. This does not mean that a happy person cannot have all these accouterments of success - they surely can. Happiness, however, is not a result of these symbols of success.
Happiness is ethereal. It only dwells within, and when we seek it, it becomes even more elusive.
I HAVE the opportunity to open myself to the happiness that is mine today and not try to fill myself with happiness substitutes....
We are the wellspring of our own happiness. Our happiness resides within us. No one else and nothing else can give it to us. We may try to find all kinds of things outside ourselves to fill us up and make us happy, but they are all short-lived.
We think success, recognition, respect, money and prestige will do it for us. But the truth is they're nice for a while, and the feeling lingers that there is something missing. This does not mean that a happy person cannot have all these accouterments of success - they surely can. Happiness, however, is not a result of these symbols of success.
Happiness is ethereal. It only dwells within, and when we seek it, it becomes even more elusive.
I HAVE the opportunity to open myself to the happiness that is mine today and not try to fill myself with happiness substitutes....
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