The capacity for happiness is inside ourselves – often in a tiny unexplored cocoon. Before you can get anywhere at all you have to find it. Only from that instant are you taking the positive steps that can lead to happiness. Hope at obtaining it in any other way is an illusion. You have to learn to use the capacity to be happy –and to deserve it—before happiness becomes a tangible state.
Perhaps the fundamental secret of happiness is an ability to come to terms with one’s own life as it really is—not as one imagines it ought to be: of finding the best in it, of knowing when to give things a push forward, when to accept them as they are and how to built cheerfully round what cant for the moment be altered.
This is the best recipe for making a success of the little bit of life that has been put into one’s hands. Getting all you can out of life doesn’t –and mustn’t—mean for your self alone. Take what is offered by those around you, but give at least as much as you receive.
Perhaps the fundamental secret of happiness is an ability to come to terms with one’s own life as it really is—not as one imagines it ought to be: of finding the best in it, of knowing when to give things a push forward, when to accept them as they are and how to built cheerfully round what cant for the moment be altered.
This is the best recipe for making a success of the little bit of life that has been put into one’s hands. Getting all you can out of life doesn’t –and mustn’t—mean for your self alone. Take what is offered by those around you, but give at least as much as you receive.
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