Happiness Is When You Can Look At Yourself And Like What You See

Billy Graham explained that happiness depends on circumstances and joy depends on God. It’s not wrong to seek happiness, of course; happiness is one of God’s gifts. The writer of Ecclesiastes declared, “I know there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live” (Ecclesiastes 3:12).

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God gives us joy, but how can we be happy?

Don’t Worry Be Happy

It’s too bad things are not as easy as this 1988 song by Bobby McFerrin.

Happiness takes working with your circumstances and taking care of yourself. #Happiness Share on X

Take steps to happiness

• Remove negatives in your life. This includes bad habits, bad people, and bad thoughts. Have a positive attitude and remind yourself that you are worthy, beautiful and happy with where you are.
• Surround yourself with like-minded people. You need people who love you, just as you are. They will support your effort to make things better. Your happiness will rub off on them also!
• Look for the good in other people and if someone makes a mistake, be understanding to them.
• Forgive yourself. You are not perfect and it is OK. Cut yourself some slack and move on.
• Don’t judge others. Remember, we all are imperfect humans. You can’t know all the facts about others or their situation.
• Be kind to others. You can make someone’s day just by being nice to them.  It will make you feel better also. You may never know the good that can come from you being nice and not critical of other people.

Laugh out loud more often.  Literally, not just in texts.

Get more sleep.  You will be more rested obviously, but you will also be more focused.  Take a walk before bed and clear your mind and you will sleep better.

Smile more, even to strangers.  This makes everyone involved feel better.  If you are smiling, it’s hard not to think happy thoughts.

Make time for yourself. Meditate, read, color, take a bubble bath – whatever makes you feel better.  You don’t need someone else to make you happy.  Your happiness comes from within.

Don’t compare yourself to others.  You are responsible for your own feelings.

Take up a new hobby you have been thinking about doing.  There can be a lot of gratification from doing something you enjoy.

Be thankful for the good things in your life.  You know there are some.  Just remind yourself what they are.  It may be your health, your family, your job, or most importantly – your faith.

Keep a journal of your thoughts and wishes.  Include some of the things you are thankful for from the previous step.

Be a kid.  As you get older you can get away with this even more!  Sing out loud, dance and skip.  Look back to the days before work stress, mortgage payments, and other grown-up things.  Relive that childish happiness.

Be proud of what you do for a living.  Not everyone is meant to be a rocket scientist.  Do whatever you do, the best way you can, and be proud of it.

Crap happens.  For example, if your child or grandchild breaks something special to you, you have to let it go.  Things are things and can be replaced.  People’s feelings cannot be fixed and are more important.

Get more exercise.  Exercise has been proven to have a huge impact on our feeling of well-being.  It helps you relax and has been known to help with depression.

Spend time outdoors.  Fresh air, mountain scent, an ocean breeze, your backyard; go outside and breathe it in!

Be thankful for every day God has given you.  We are not guaranteed a tomorrow, be thankful for today and enjoy it!

Pray and do Bible study.  Find a quiet spot to commune with God.

 

Some Happiness Quotes To Enjoy

Ponder on these quotes:

“Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.” – Zig Ziglar

“Whoever is happy will make others happy.” – Anne Frank

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, I told them they didn’t understand life.”  – John Lennon

“Happiness isn’t about how much you have, It’s about enjoying how much you have already!”

“Life is like a road trip– enjoy each day and don’t carry too much baggage.”

“For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson 

“Everything worth having cost something, and the price of true love is self-knowledge. “

“The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.” – E. E. Cummings 

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot 

 

Bible Verses About Happiness

There are many more, but study these:

John 16:24  Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

Matthew 5:3  “Happy are those conscious of their spiritual need since the Kingdom of the heavens belongs to them.”

Luke 16:31  “Just as you want men to do to you, do the same way to them.”

Luke 11:28  “Happy are those hearing the word of God and keeping it!”

Acts 20:35  “There is more happiness in giving than there is in receiving.”

Romans 15:13  May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

1 Thessalonians 5:11   Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.

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