...people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend upon you like fine weather if you are fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay on top of it.
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ReplyDeleteOne of the ways I have found to cultivate nearly instant happiness in an easy way is to write (or think) a gratitude list. It's astounding to me how I can move from upset to content to happy in mere minutes, "simply" by recognizing and articulating all of the amazing goodness in my life.
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