Enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Do not wait to please yourself. Remember that time is really precious. Every minute you spend with your family or friends should be appreciated and savored.
– Earl Nightengale
To choose to be happy, is it possible? Is not happiness just something that we have, or that we do not have? Something we are due, if we are lucky? Is it not rather that in life there are happy people as well as unhappy people? It would then be only a question of 'luck'.
Happiness, we create it ourselves. Everyone knows how to do it. It may be hard to believe. And yet, it is possible. For you too.
Everyone wants to be happy, but most people expect happiness to come out of nowhere and then stay forever. Unfortunately, it does not work like that. Happiness is a choice, a certain approach to life that we take and we must be aware of.
Happiness is a matter of being good about yourself, a state where you are in perfect harmony with life, with the universe, with everything. It's a feeling. An experience of well-being that you can create yourself. It will not fall on you. It's not going to knock on your door. But the good news is that you can create your own happiness. Just know how to do it.
Almost everyone is looking for happiness. As if happiness was hidden somewhere and we had to go on a hunt for treasure. We believe that happiness is 'somewhere outside' and we try to catch it, like a hunter who goes hunting to catch a wild animal.
So maybe happiness is inside us. Where we lost it Maybe he is not at all outside of us, as so many people think. They continue to search the outside world, and they continue to be unhappy, because that's not where it is!
It is quite possible that we do not even need to look for happiness. Maybe we are already happy, without our realizing it. We believe that we will finally be happy once the circumstances have improved or if the people around us are changing. Is this the case?
How is it possible that some people manage to be happy under pitiful circumstances, when other people are unhappy in the most luxurious conditions?
If happiness is not outside us, and if we can not find it, what is it? Happiness is a state of mind. It's a behavior, an attitude, a way of seeing things, a way of being present in life. Seen this way, one can choose to be happy. Even more, one can create one's own happiness.
Many people find it difficult to be happy. They expect things or outsiders to make them happy, and they worry that nothing will come, to conclude 'I'm out of luck'.
Happiness is first and foremost a choice. Happiness is not something that one has or that one does not have, 'by chance'. Happiness is the small supplement we get when we do certain things, when we look at life in a well-established way, when we manage to manage emotions in a healthy way and when we reason with a certain way.