Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find this kind of happiness without needing nice things to happen on the outside. Rather, you find happiness by being who you really are. This isn't mystical. Young children are happy being who they are. The trick is to regain such a state when you are grown and have seen the light and dark sides of life.

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

If we make happiness our primary goal instead of our secondary goal, then we easily accomplish everything else we desire.

Who is content simply to be? You too have felt the peace of simply being. Wake up to that, and you will join me in being free.

Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.

Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.

We perhaps need to snatch happiness in little pieces, learning to recognize the elements of happiness and then treasuring them while they last.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

All the stuff we're so worried about creating and fixated on becoming is already right here, right now. The money you want already exists; the person you want to meet is already alive; the experience you want to have is available, now; the idea for that brilliant song you want to write is here, now, waiting for you to download the information. The knowledge and insight and joy and connection and love are all wagging their hands in your face, trying to get your attention.

The life you want is right here, right now.

I really am pretty happy with what God gave me.