Key to happiness

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy any place. True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. To buy happiness is to sell soul. There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness. Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?. If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. Lastly forgiveness is key to happiness.

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