I Choose to be HAPPY!
Happiness is an inside job. Don’t assign anyone else that much power over your life.
– Mandy Hale
I totally agree and add to it, that my happiness should never be dependent on the things I have in my life. Happiness is a choice, not a result of anything that I have or what is going on in my life. It isn’t dependent on your significant other, your family, your friends. It isn’t dependent on your job, the car you drive, or the position you have achieved at your job. It isn’t dependent on the size of your bank account. It comes from owning the fact that you are the source of your own happiness. It always starts within, and that is why transformation is always a part of the process of being happy.
The world is full of magic things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
– W. B. Yeats
I love how small children have this concept down. Have you seen the video of the baby that laughs when dad tears the paper? She gets so hysterical over the ripping paper, you just have to smile. A baby’s laughter always makes me smile, no matter what. Children open presents and half the time they have more fun playing with the boxes the toys came in, as they have in playing with the toys.
Happiness is always a choice. You can’t wait for circumstances to get better. You have to create your own good fortune. So look for ways to be happy every day.
– Joel Osteen
At any moment in time we can simply choose to let our happiness be bigger than our worries. We can focus on the inspiring things that we see around us. The man who opens the shopkeepers door for the woman carrying a baby and her purse. The teenage boy who stops traffic so that the ducks can cross the street. The little old lady who pulls out some coins and drops them in the parking meter that just popped up the expired sign as she walks by. The little girl who reaches down and picks up the mail that the elderly man dropped as he took it out of his mailbox.
For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well.
– Matthieu Ricard
Many of us tend to wait for happiness – when we are on vacation or when we retire – then we will do what we want and be happy. Like the rest of our life is a payment for a few fleeting days of happiness each year. Instead, why not give yourself permission to be happy every day?
I am the only one who can decide whether I’m going to let the chaos of life make me unhappy.
– geniespeaks.wordpress.com
One of the keys to finding more happiness in our life is to learn to look at each situation and ask: What is this situation trying to be, instead of putting a definition around it and then trying to make it fit. How many times have we stopped listening to what someone is trying to tell us, and instead ran full speed ahead with our own negative interpretation of the situation? Then after we have created a mess of the whole thing, discovered that we simply were not listening with an open heart, and so missed what they were trying to say? I have done this many times, and it has happened to me many times. When that begins to happen I try to remember to stop the conversation just for a moment, and say “I am not explaining this very well, let me try again (if I am being misunderstood) or I say to them, I think that I am not understanding what you are trying to say, can we start over?
When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It’s not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It’s up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.
– Joel Osteen
I AM is two of the most powerful words in our language. What you put after those two words is how you are defining your world. Remember your peace and happiness come from within. It is always a choice. I AM HAPPY. Claim it. It is a beautiful blessed day and it is a wonderful life. Happiness is the truth.
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