The Path to Happiness Is Happiness
Have you ever thought, "I'll be happy when {insert event} happens?" If so, you are probably guilty of taking the hardest possible path to happiness.
The easiest path to happiness is to be happy.
Please don't make your happiness dependent on certain events. "I'll be happy when I get a bigger house" is a formula designed to keep you unhappy for the next three to 20 years.
Likewise, "I'll be happy when I can get a different boss" will keep you sullen every day when you go to work.
Happiness is a mindset, not an outcome.
The Happiness Mindset works better than many other mindsets, including the:
In 2003, the Zen master and poet Thich Nhat Hanh spoke to members of the United States Congress. He said...
We should be awakened to the fact that happiness cannot be found in the direction of power, fame, wealth and sex. If we look deeply around us, we see many people with plenty of these things, but they suffer very deeply.
Happiness is not conditional. It is a state of mind.
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I know some people who are nearly always happy, and others who are nearly always unhappy. There does not seem to be many differences in the circumstances between these two types of people, other than with regards to how they feel.
One of the great lessons of my own life is that human beings have a much greater ability to change our reality than we realize.
If you want to be happy, be happy.
If you are not happy, it is because - at some level - you have chosen unhappiness.
Yes, I know that horrible things can happen. (I read the headlines every now and then.)
In recent days, I was happy when I...
If you want an immediate boost in your happiness, try being grateful for the smallest blessings in your life: each bite of food, each deep breath, each step you take and each time that you wake up and lie down in bed.
Be happy, not just when {insert event} happens.
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🎯Bruce Kasanoff So brilliantly said‼️ You make me happy ☺️
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10moWe can choose to be happy!
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10moBruce appreciate your inspiration, paths to happiness internally, not waiting for an external event. Have a week of joy 🤗🙏❤️
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11moLove this and it is so true.
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11moHappiness is Mindset, and it comes faster to those who have a Growth Mindset! It is important to acknowledge the difference between pleasures and happiness. Material things will bring pleasure and instant gratification. Whereas mindful initiatives and life experiences will bring joy and happiness to the soul