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Happiness isn’t something that you can get from external things

but comes from within you. It is also not something that happens

to you but something that you make happen. And remember that

you’ll never find happiness if you keep looking in the wrong places.

To look for happiness outside yourself stops you from being

yourself. So instead of searching for happiness, just be yourself and

you’ll find that happiness will come to you.

Some people experience a sense of happiness through giving. This

is because giving connects you with others. So if that’s where you

feel happy, then give away generously.

You may also have reminisced over the past thinking about those

“happier days”. But if you think hard enough and try to remember

why were you happy at the time that you now consider to be a

happier time? You’ll probably realize that you never took note of

your happiness as you experienced it. This is because in your mind

happiness is something that lives in the memory rather than

something you consciously experience. To associate happiness with

either the past or the future leaves no room for it in the present.

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