Happiness is a Choice Happiness comes from mastering the art of appreciating.
Happiness is not a happening; it's a state of mind.
You can have everything in the world and still be miserable. Or you can have relatively little and feel unbounded joy.
There are some people who seem to think that happiness is the result of all the right things happening at exactly the right time. You’re walking down the street, find twenty dollars, get a compliment from a stranger, find another twenty dollars on the ground, go to your favorite store and get 50% off, etc., etc. It’s easy to be happy when everything is going your way, but when you define happiness in this way. it is reduced it to luck of the draw, or it happens by accident, which it does
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Happiness doesn’t just happen.
Some days are good, but there are probably more days that are just mediocre or plain bad, and it’s on those days that the true meaning of happiness is revealed.
Have you ever met someone who stays positive, even when they’re having a bad day when everything that can go wrong seems to be going wrong?
If you’re having a bad day, too, just being near someone with a personality that’s like a ray of sunshine can be uplifting although for others it is annoying, but that usually just stems from jealousy. People who have a cheerful attitude about everything are able to smile even through the worst of times
They have learned a very important lesson,
Happiness doesn’t just happen. Happiness is choice.
That’s right, it’s a choice. Not an accident, not a gift from the universe on specific days. Of course, it’s nice to receive those gifts, and easy to be happy when you do, but true happiness is about choosing to see the adventure and happiness in every moment and