Favorite Inspirational Quotes

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Barbara DeAngelis

I sometimes wish happiness could be caused by things outside me.  Just think.  All I would have to do to be happy is to get or do that thing.

But it just doesn’t happen that way.  Things outside us may bring a bright spot or joy into our lives, but they don’t make us happy. Once I get that thing, I just end up wanting more things.  Things outside me don’t make me happy.  As the saying goes, happiness is an inside job.

If I want to be happy, I must find the happiness within.  It is a matter of uncovering or unfolding what is there.

So how do I go about uncovering what is already there?  Maybe I have to dig through the beliefs I have accepted from parents, friends and society and change those.  Maybe I have to change the way I live.  Whatever is done, I have to do it and it has to be me and my life that is changed.

The good news is that all it requires is change, if I am not now what would be called a happy person.  And that means it is something that can be done.

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